Catalog
5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Muñoz y Rodriguez & Ca., Tucumán |
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| Year | 1883 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central vignette of an agricultural plowing scene with two figures guiding a horse-drawn plow, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. To the left, a dark oval vignette depicts a pastoral still life with fruit and game, framed by intricate guilloche borders and the denomination CINCO in letterpress; to the right, an intaglio portrait of a gentleman in early 19th-century attire. The bank title EL BANCO MUÑOZ & RODRIGUEZ & Ca. runs across the top, with the text PAGARÁ A LA VISTA and CINCO PESOS / moneda nacional inscribed in the center field. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO MUÑOZ & RODRIGUEZ & Ca. PAGARÁ A LA VISTA Cinco Pesos moneda nacional CINCO Serie No. Tucuman, Junio 30 de 1883 |
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Banco Muñoz y Rodriguez & Ca. was one of several provincial Argentine banks authorized under the 1880s free banking arrangements that allowed private commercial houses to issue currency against gold reserves held with the national government. Tucumán's economy in this period ran heavily on sugar — the province had industrialized its cane processing rapidly through the 1870s, and local credit instruments like this circulated primarily within that agricultural and mercantile network rather than reaching Buenos Aires in any volume.
The American Bank Note Company held the engraving contract for a large share of Argentine provincial paper in this period, which creates genuine attribution challenges when plates were reused or shared across issuers. PS1762 is a scarce survivor from a bank that did not outlast the financial crisis of 1890.