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50 Centésimos
| Issuer | Banco Comercial de Corrientes |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Value | 50 Centésimos |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided note printed in brown on plain paper, with the issuing bank's name 'El Banco Comercial de Corrientes' in large bold letterpress across the upper portion. A central vignette shows a bull or cattle animal in a landscape setting, flanked by a handwritten serial number to the left. The denomination 'Cincuenta Centésimos' appears in a bold panel across the lower section, with the date 'Marzo 1° de 1868' and place name 'Corrientes' in the upper field, and 'Al Portador de Este Billete' printed below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, consisting of plain aged paper with no design, text, or ornamentation, consistent with many provincial Argentine issues of the 1860s. |
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The Banco Comercial de Corrientes was one of several provincial banks operating in Argentina's interior during the 1860s, issuing their own paper currency at a time when Buenos Aires had not yet consolidated monetary control over the provinces. Corrientes, a northeastern province with strong commercial ties to Paraguay and the Río de la Plata trade routes, had particular motivation to maintain its own circulating medium — the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) was actively disrupting regional commerce during this note's issue year.
Provincial issues of this period are notoriously fragile survivors. Many were redeemed and destroyed as national banking legislation tightened through the 1870s and 1880s.