5 Pesos Fuertes

Banco de Corrientes was a provincial institution operating in the Argentine interior, far from the financial oversight centered in Buenos Aires. Provincial banks of this period frequently issued their own notes with little coordination with national monetary policy, and Corrientes was among the more financially independent provinces — it had its own currency traditions stretching back decades before the 1890s banking collapse that wiped out most of these institutions.

PS1616 is a scarce early survivor from a bank whose records are poorly preserved. Notes from interior Argentine provincial issuers of the 1870s rarely circulated far beyond their home region, which paradoxically means surviving examples were less subject to heavy handling — though storage conditions in the humid northeast were rarely kind to paper.