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5 Pesos large size
| Issuer | Caja de Conversión, Argentina |
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| Year | 1900-1903 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | República Argentina La Nación pagará al portador y a la vista Cinco pesos moneda nacional LEY DE 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE 1897 CAJA DE CONVERSION (Translation: Republic of Argentina The Nation will pay the bearer and at sight Five Pesos National currency Law of September 20, 1897 Conversion Fund) |
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| Protection description | Monogram 'RA' Type 1A and '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.