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5 Pesos large size
| Issuer | Caja de Conversión, Argentina |
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| Year | 1900-1903 |
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| Currency | Peso moneda nacional (1881-1969) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark gray, the reverse is centered on the Argentine national coat of arms, surrounded by laurel branch ornamentation and framed by formal typographic inscriptions stating the country name and denomination. The overall composition is austere and heraldic in character, consistent with the engraved convention of the period. |
| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA ARGENTINA 5 PESOS (Translation: Republic of Argentina 5 Pesos) |
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The Caja de Conversión was established in 1890 in the wreckage of Argentina's financial collapse — the Baring Crisis had nearly bankrupted the country and destroyed confidence in convertible currency. These early 1900s issues were part of the institution's mandate to maintain gold-backed convertibility, a policy that held until 1914 when wartime conditions made it untenable.
Mouchon is better known internationally for his French postage stamp engravings, including the controversial 1900 Mouchon "Droits de l'Homme" definitive series. His work on Argentine banknotes for the Société Générale d'Imprimerie in the same period is considerably less documented.