5 Pesos

The Banco Provincial de Córdoba was one of several Argentine provincial banks empowered to issue currency under the 1887 Ley de Bancos Garantidos, which allowed provincial institutions to emit notes backed by national bonds. The system collapsed almost immediately — by 1890 the Baring Crisis had detonated Argentina's financial system, the guarantee banks were liquidated, and most of their issues were withdrawn within a few years of printing. A note dated 1889 sits right at the edge of that collapse.

ABNC produced the plates in New York; the "Córdoba" in the title refers to the issuing province, not the press location. Their Argentine provincial work from this period tends to be technically consistent, though the short effective circulation window means surviving examples often show minimal wear — not from care, but from early withdrawal.