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5 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco Oxandaburu y Garbino |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos Fuertes |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate guilloche pattern with two large circular medallions bearing the numeral "5" at left and right, connected by a central ornate cartouche carrying the inscription "EL BANCO OXANDABURU Y GARBINO". The overall design is composed of intricate lathe-work and engine-turned geometric borders typical of American Bank Note Company production. The printer's imprint appears along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO OXANDABURU Y GARBINO Compañía Americana de Billetes de Banco Nueva York |
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Banco Oxandaburu y Garbino was one of the provincial Argentine banks that proliferated in the 1860s under legislation permitting individual provinces to charter their own note-issuing institutions — a situation that produced an extraordinary diversity of paper before Buenos Aires finally asserted federal monetary control in the 1880s. This particular bank operated out of Entre Ríos province, and its notes were printed by the American Bank Note Company in New York, which handled a substantial share of Latin American bank printing during this period.
The PS prefix in the Pick reference denotes a South American provincial or private issue — useful shorthand for a note that never achieved wide recognition outside its immediate region of circulation.