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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Provincia de Mendoza |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE MENDOZA LETRA DE TESORERÍA LA PROVINCIA DE MENDOZA RECONOCE AL PORTADOR 50 CENTAVOS Serie L MINISTRO DE HACIENDA PRESIDENTE DEL CRÉDITO PÚBLICO LIT. GRO KRAFT BS. AIRES |
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| Reverse lettering | CINCUENTA 50 CENTAVOS UNIFICACIÓN POR CANJE DECRETO DEL P. E. DE LA PROVINCIA DE 26 OCTUBRE 1922 LEYES NOS. 210, 269, 477, 428, 541, 552, 562, 498. DISPOSICIÓN GENERAL: ESTAS OBLIGACIONES SERÁN RECIBIDAS POR SU VALOR ESCRITO EN TODAS LAS REPARTICIONES PÚBLICAS PROVINCIALES EN PAGO DE IMPUESTOS Y SERVICIOS Y POR EL BANCO OFICIAL EN CANCELACIÓN O AMORTIZACIÓN DE SUS CRÉDITOS. (LEY N.° 050, ART. 3.°) |
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Mendoza's 1914 fractional issues were emergency scrip, not provincial banking instruments in any formal sense. The national government's coin shortage that year — driven by wartime metal hoarding across South America following the European outbreak — pushed several Argentine provinces into issuing their own low-denomination paper to keep small commerce moving. Mendoza was among the more organized of these provincial responses.
Litografía Kraft was a well-established Buenos Aires commercial printer with no particular banknote specialization, which shows in the relatively modest production values typical of this series. The PS prefix in the Pick reference signals its classification as a provincial or local issue rather than a national emission.