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5 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco Mauá y Ca., Rosario |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Pink and black intaglio-printed note with the bank title BANCO MAUÁ & CIA. across the upper centre. An oval portrait vignette of a gentleman in formal dress occupies the left-centre, flanked by ornate guilloche rosettes bearing the numeral 5 at lower left and lower right. A secondary vignette in the upper right corner shows a seated allegorical figure. The promise text reads EN LA PRESENTACIÓN DE ESTE BILLETE PAGAREMOS AL PORTADOR CINCO PESOS FUERTES, with manuscript fields for date and value at left and the place name ROSARIO printed in the lower body. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO MAUÁ & CIA. CINCO PESOS FUERTES VALE POR CINCO PESOS FUERTES EN LA PRESENTACIÓN DE ESTE BILLETE PAGAREMOS AL PORTADOR CINCO PESOS FUERTES ROSARIO 5 |
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Banco Mauá y Ca. was the Argentine arm of the financial empire built by Irineu Evangelista de Sousa — Baron Mauá — the Brazilian industrialist whose banking network stretched across the Río de la Plata region during the 1860s. The Rosario branch served a city then exploding in commercial importance as the primary export terminus for the Argentine interior, particularly after the railroads opened the Pampas grain trade.
The American Bank Note Company plate work is characteristically fine for the period. Mauá's broader network collapsed under him in 1875 — this note predates that failure by seven years, issued when the enterprise was still solvent and expanding.