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5 Pesos de Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la Província de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES 16 DE ENERO DE 1883 PAGARA AL PORTADOR 5 y ala 5 vista CINCO PESOS DE ORO DETERMINADOS POR LA LEY NACIONAL DE 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1881 CINCO |
| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially plain white paper with no printed design elements, bearing only handwritten notations and endorsements added after issue, consistent with a circulated bearer instrument of the period. |
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The Banco de la Província de Buenos Aires was not Argentina's central bank — it was a provincial institution with a turbulent monetary history, having suspended specie payments multiple times before this note was issued. The 1881 date places it squarely in the early post-Roca period, when Buenos Aires province was navigating the financial consequences of federalization: the city of Buenos Aires had just been ceded to the national government, stripping the province of its historic capital and forcing a hard institutional reset.
American Bank Note Company's New York work on Argentine provincial paper from this period is generally well-regarded for ink saturation and fine-line engraving. PS#538 is not among the common survivors of the series.