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50 Céntimos Santo Tomé
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Santo Tomé |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock printed in black letterpress. A decorative rope or cable guilloche border runs across the top edge, beneath which the issuer legend appears in large bold typeface across two lines, separated from the denomination statement by a double ruled line. The denomination 'Vale 0'50 cts.' is set in a larger display typeface in the lower register. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal SANTO TOME (JAEN) Vale 0'50 cts. (Translation: Municipal Council Santo Tomé (Jaen) Value 0.50 Centimos) |
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Municipal emergency fractional notes of this type were issued across Argentina during the early 1890s financial collapse, when the Baring Crisis drained hard currency from circulation and left provincial towns improvising their own scrip. The Consejo Municipal de Santo Tomé — the local governing council of the town in Corrientes province — produced these céntimos issues as a stopgap for small transactions that federal coinage could no longer service.
The thick card stock was deliberate: it extended the working life of notes expected to pass through many hands in a small economy with no easy mechanism for replacement.