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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la Nación Argentina |
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| Year | 1895-1898 |
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| Currency | Peso moneda nacional (1881-1969) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA Ley nº 3062 de 8 de Enero de 1894. LA NACION PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR Y Á LA VISTA CINCO PESOS MONEDA NACIONAL Buenos Aires, 1° de Enero de 1895 (Translation: Republic of Argentina Law no. 3062 of January 8, 1894. The Nation will pay to the bearer and at sight Five Pesos National Currency Buenos Aires, January 1, 1895) |
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| Signature(s) | Areco & Molina Areco & Marín Benitez & Peró |
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The South American Bank Note Company operated out of Buenos Aires as a subsidiary printing operation during the 1890s, making this one of the relatively few Argentine issues of the period produced entirely domestically rather than contracted to a European house like Bradbury Wilkinson or De La Rue. The Banco de la Nación Argentina itself had only been founded in 1891, emerging from the wreckage of the Baring Crisis — the sovereign debt collapse that had effectively bankrupted the country the previous year and wiped out its predecessor institution, the Banco Nacional.
Three distinct signature combinations are documented for P#220, suggesting continuous issue across the full date range with at least two changes in senior bank officialdom during that window.