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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional |
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| Year | 1884 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black on brown underprint. The Argentine Coat of Arms appears as a vignette at left, with an engraved portrait of Captain General Justo José de Urquiza at right. Denomination and issuing authority inscriptions are arranged across the face, with the date Buenos Aires, January 1st, 1884 and reference to the Law of October 4th, 1883. |
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| Reverse lettering | REPÚBLICA 50 ARGENTINA AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY NEW YORK. (Translation: Republic of Argentina) |
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The Banco Nacional was Argentina's primary state-linked commercial bank during the 1880s, not a true central bank — a distinction that mattered enormously when it collapsed in 1891 amid the broader Baring Crisis, triggering one of the worst financial panics in Argentine history. Notes from this 1884 series were caught in that collapse, and the chaotic redemption and repudiation process that followed means surviving examples in any grade are genuinely hard to locate.
ABNC printed extensively for South American clients in this period, and the quality of the intaglio work on this series reflects the company's peak New York output before the 1879 merger had fully settled.