Catalog
5 Pesos
| Issuer | Provincia de Catamarca |
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| Year | 1993-1998 |
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| Size | 155 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE CATAMARCA RECONOCERA POR ESTE TITULO PUBLICO AL PORTADOR LEY 4748 5 CINCO PESOS (Translation: PROVINCE OF CATAMARCA WILL RECOGNIZE BY THIS PUBLIC TITLE TO THE BEARER LAW 4748 5 FIVE PESOS) |
| Reverse description | The full text of Ley No. 4748 in dark green letterpress occupies the left and central portions of the note across multiple numbered articles, set against a multicolor guilloche underprint of orange and light green wave patterns. A column of six green security guilloche squares runs along the right margin, with the provincial coat of arms of Catamarca printed in dark green intaglio in the lower right corner. |
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The Provincia de Catamarca note is a provincial quasi-currency issued under Argentina's convertibility regime, when several cash-strapped provinces began printing their own instruments to meet payroll and local obligations that the federal government couldn't — or wouldn't — cover. These are not emergency notes in the traditional sense; they circulated alongside the peso as de facto legal tender within provincial borders, accepted by local merchants out of practical necessity rather than legal obligation.
Ciccone Calcografica, the Buenos Aires security printer behind much of Argentina's provincial paper from this period, produced the series. The firm later became notorious for its entanglement in a major counterfeiting and corruption scandal that broke in 2011.