Catalog
5 Pesos
| Issuer | Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1844 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress note printed in red-orange ink within a plain rectangular border, with the denomination numeral 5 repeated in each corner and in the vertical side panels. Two rhea (ñandú) vignettes flank the central text block — one at the left and one at the right margin — while a palm tree vignette occupies the lower-left corner. The central text panel carries the issuing authority and denomination legend in a combination of script and uppercase letterpress type, with a handwritten date and serial number above and a manuscript signature below. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on cream-toned paper, bearing no deliberate design elements or inscriptions, with only faint offset impressions from the obverse face visible on the surface. |
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The Casa de Moneda in Buenos Aires was functioning as a de facto central bank by the 1840s, issuing paper currency under the Rosas administration at a time when the province's finances were under severe strain from prolonged conflict with Uruguay and French and British naval blockades. The Junta de la Administración was its governing body — technically separate from the mint function, though the two operated under the same roof.
PS#385 is provincially issued, not nationally. Argentine national banking infrastructure did not exist until 1854, a full decade after this note circulated.