Catalog
50 Centavos
| Issuer | Provincia de Jujuy |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Currency | Austral (1985-1991) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central vignette set within an oval frame, rendered in reddish-brown intaglio, illustrating a colonial-era outdoor scene with figures on horseback and on foot in a courtyard or plaza setting. To the left, a large guilloche rosette in blue carries the interlaced monogram 'PJ' at its centre. The denomination 'CINCUENTA CENTAVOS' appears in bold letterpress at lower left, with the alphanumeric value 'A 0,50' at right, and the serial number printed in blue at upper left and lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in blue on a fine guilloche underprint and carries the full legal text of Law No. 4248 authorising the issue of this bearer public title. The text is set in multiple justified columns across the face of the note. A guilloche rosette device appears at the right margin, and the header 'PROVINCIA DE JUJUY - TITULO PUBLICO AL PORTADOR' runs across the top. |
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Argentina's provinces occasionally issued emergency currency during periods of federal fiscal collapse, and Jujuy's 1986 notes fall squarely into that tradition. By the mid-1980s, hyperinflationary pressure on the austral — which had itself only replaced the peso argentino that same year — left provincial governments scrambling to maintain liquidity for small transactions the federal banking system could no longer reliably service.
Jujuy sits in the far northwest, bordering Bolivia and Chile, geographically and economically distant from Buenos Aires. Provincial scrip from this period was often printed locally under contract, with quality varying considerably across the series.