50 Centavos Fuertes

The Banco de Corrientes was a provincial institution operating in Argentina's northeastern Corrientes province, and its notes circulated in a region that remained economically and politically semi-autonomous well into the 1870s. Provincial banking in Argentina during this period was notoriously unstable — many such institutions issued paper far beyond their specie reserves, and the notes frequently traded at significant discounts to face value in Buenos Aires markets.

The PS prefix in the Pick catalogue places this firmly in the speciman or provincial/private category. Surviving examples from Corrientes provincial issues of this era are genuinely uncommon, as redemption and destruction rates were high following the eventual consolidation of Argentine banking under federal authority in the 1880s.