5 Pesos

Mendoza issued its own quasi-currency during the 2001–2002 Argentine financial collapse, when the federal government froze bank deposits under the corralito and provincial administrations were left unable to meet payroll. These notes — formally called Bonos de Cancelación de Deuda — functioned as a parallel circulating medium accepted for provincial taxes and utility payments, a workaround that technically kept them on the right side of the constitutional prohibition on provincial currency.

Casa de Moneda printed emergency paper for at least eight provinces simultaneously during this period, an unprecedented domestic production load.