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5 Pesos Fuerte
| Issuer | Provincia de Santiago del Estero |
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| Year | 1876 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red-pink on white paper. A central vignette portrays a group of figures in a pastoral or civic scene, flanked on each side by an oval guilloche bearing the numeral 5. The upper inscription reads PROVINCIA DE SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, with SERIE D and a serial number to the left, and the denomination CINCO PESOS FUERTES in bold letterpress along the lower portion, accompanied by the date Santiago 30 de Julio de 1876 and a reference to Ley 11 de Julio de 1876. |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO SERIE D Bono al portador por CINCO PESOS FUERTES Ley 11 de Julio de 1876 Santiago 30 de Julio de 1876 Guillermo Kraft Reconquista 112 B.s Aires |
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Santiago del Estero's 1876 provincial emission came during a particularly chaotic period for Argentine interior currencies. Following the Wars of the Triple Alliance and ongoing federal-provincial fiscal tensions, several northern provinces issued their own paper to cover shortfalls that Buenos Aires was unwilling or unable to fill. Guillermo Kraft, the Buenos Aires-based printer of German origin who became one of the dominant commercial printing houses in Argentina, handled the job locally rather than routing it through European security printers as wealthier provinces did.
Provincial notes from Santiago del Estero of this period are genuinely scarce survivors — the province had limited banking infrastructure and most paper circulated hard before being discarded or destroyed.