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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1891 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper. The centre bears the large denomination inscription 'Cinco Pesos' in bold script over a guilloche underprint, with the text 'Certificado de Depósito' and a reference to Ley Nacional núm. 2789 of 7 August 1891. To the left appears a vignette of cattle grazing, while to the right a rural scene with a figure harvesting is engraved in fine detail. The upper portion carries the bank title flanked by a circular arms vignette at upper left and the numeral '5' at upper left corner, with 'Serie A' and a red serial number below. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES pagará al portador por este CERTIFICADO DE DEPÓSITO Cinco Pesos m/n dentro de los términos y en las condiciones establecidas por la Ley Nacional núm. 2789 de 7 de Agosto de 1891 SERIE A INSPECTOR GENERAL PRESIDENTE |
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The Talleres del Museo de la Plata is an unusual printer for any banknote series. The print workshop attached to the natural history museum in La Plata was pressed into service during Argentina's severe banking crisis of 1890–91 — the Baring Crisis — when the Provincia needed to issue emergency currency quickly and conventional security printing arrangements had become financially or logistically untenable. That a museum workshop produced circulating banknotes is not a trivial detail; it speaks directly to how badly the financial system had fractured.
The Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires itself survived the crisis intact, which very few provincial banks did.