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50 Centavos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos Fuertes |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and pink, with an elaborate guilloche framework filling the entire surface and the denomination numeral '50' repeated in each corner and along the margins. A central pink underprint panel carries a classical portrait vignette — a bust in profile, likely an allegorical female figure — rendered in intaglio within a lace-like oval surround. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 |
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The Banco de San Juan was one of several provincial Argentine banks chartered in the early 1870s under legislation that permitted individual provinces to issue their own currency — a decentralized arrangement that lasted only until the national government moved to consolidate monetary authority in the 1880s. San Juan was a minor issuing institution by any measure, and its notes circulated in a landlocked Andean province with limited commercial volume.
The PS prefix in the Pick catalog places this firmly in the specialized South American regional series. Surviving examples from this bank are genuinely uncommon; provincial Argentine notes of this period were printed in small quantities and subject to rapid redemption or destruction as national unification progressed.