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5 Pesos de Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la Província de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1883 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES 19 DE ENERO DE 1883 PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR CINCO PESOS DE ORO DETERMINADOS POR LA LEY NACIONAL DE 5 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1881 CINCO 5 |
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The Banco de la Província de Buenos Aires was not the national central bank — it was a provincial institution with a long, turbulent history of over-issuance and forced conversion crises. By 1883, the province's finances were under significant pressure, and the following decade would bring the catastrophic Baring Crisis of 1890, which nearly collapsed the bank entirely and triggered a global financial panic that reached London.
ABNC's New York-printed plates for this provincial series are generally well-executed, but the bank's paper obligations from this period circulated under chronic conditions of distrust. Many were eventually absorbed into the post-crisis monetary consolidation under the Caja de Conversión established in 1891.