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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.