Catalog
5 Pesos Plata Corriente Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan - Sucursal (Branch) Tucumán |
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| Year | 187X |
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| Value | 5 Pesos Plata Corriente Boliviana |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE A MUESTRA 5 LA SUCURSAL DEL BANCO DE SAN JUAN EN TUCUMÁN Pagará á 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. Tucumán ___ de 187_ CONSEJERO GEREnte GUILLERMO KRAFT RECONQUISTA 117 Bs. AIRES CINCO |
| Reverse description | No reverse image provided. The reverse of this type of Argentine provincial banknote typically carries a plain or lightly printed back with repeated denomination numerals or guilloche underprint in a single colour. |
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Banco de San Juan operated as one of the provincial banks authorized under Argentina's pre-1890 banking regime, when individual provinces — and even private institutions — could issue their own circulating notes. This branch issue for Tucumán is denominated in Bolivian pesos plata corriente rather than Argentine pesos fuertes, reflecting the commercial reality of the northwestern Argentine interior, where Bolivian silver currency dominated daily transactions well into the 1870s and beyond. Cross-border trade with Potosí and Salta made that denomination functionally necessary.
Kraft was among the most capable Buenos Aires printers of the period. The "187X" dating indicates the precise year of printing was never recorded or has not survived in documentation.