Catalog
5 Pesos Plata Corriente Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan - Sucursal (Branch) Catamarca |
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| Year | 187_ |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central vignette on the left side illustrating a bull standing in a pastoral landscape with reed grass. To the right, ornate script text carries the bank name and denomination. The series designation "SERIE A" appears at the upper left, and a large guilloche-framed numeral "5" is positioned at each upper corner, with the word "CINCO" printed in bold letterpress across the lower centre. The note is overprinted with the word "MUESTRA" (Specimen) in red ink. |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE A LA FILENA DEL BANCO DE SAN JUAN EN CATAMARCA Pagará a la vista al Portador el valor de Cinco Pesos Plata corriente Boliviana en monedas corrientes en esta Provincia ó su equivalente en moneda de ley. CATAMARCA de 187 MUESTRA Gerente Ganajero Guillermo Kraft Reconquista 62 B.AYRES |
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Banco de San Juan operated branches across the Argentine interior during the 1870s, issuing provincial notes denominated in Bolivian silver pesos — the dominant hard currency circulating in the Andean northwest long after independence. The Catamarca branch had limited issuing activity, and notes from this office are considerably scarcer than those from the parent San Juan operation.
Guillermo Kraft's Buenos Aires press handled much of the private bank printing for the Argentine interior during this period. The incomplete date field — "187_" — was filled in by hand at the time of issue, a routine practice that now complicates precise dating of surviving examples.