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5 Pesos 60 Centavos Fuertes = 40 Chirolas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional |
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| Year | 1880 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green note with a central vignette of a rural gaucho scene with horses and figures in a landscape, set against a fine guilloche underprint. To the upper left, the Argentine coat of arms appears within an oval frame, while the denomination '5.60' is displayed in an oval at upper right. The text reads 'EL BANCO NACIONAL pagará al portador y a la vista CINCO PESOS SESENTA CENTAVOS FUERTES ó cuarenta Chirolas de catorce centavos cada una en las monedas determinadas por la Ley Nacional, Buenos Ayres 1° de Marzo de 1880,' with two manuscript signatures below, one captioned INSPECTOR and one PRESIDENTE. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO NACIONAL pagará al portador y a la vista CINCO PESOS SESENTA CENTAVOS FUERTES ó cuarenta Chirolas de catorce centavos cada una en las monedas determinadas por la Ley Nacional Buenos Ayres 1° de Marzo de 1880 INSPECTOR PRESIDENTE SERIE A |
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The denomination itself tells the story. "Chirolas" was a contemptuous slang term for the small copper coins that circulated in Argentina's interior provinces, and a banknote denominated in them — with the conversion spelled out explicitly — signals a deep institutional mistrust between Buenos Aires banking culture and the provincial populations these notes were meant to reach. The Banco Nacional was threading a needle between two monetary worlds that barely acknowledged each other.
PS#668 is among the more unusual fractional expressions in Argentine provincial banking, and surviving examples are genuinely scarce.