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50 Pesos
| Issuer | Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1841 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on plain paper, the note bears a central pastoral vignette of two cattle standing beneath a tree, enclosed within a simple rectangular border. Oval cartouches at upper left and upper right carry the denomination numeral '50' and the issuing location 'Buenos Ayres' respectively, with the vertical legend 'CINCUENTA' repeated along both lateral margins. The lower portion carries two manuscript signatures and the manuscript date 'MAYO 1º 184[1]', below the printed authority line 'Por la Junta de la Administracion de la Casa de Moneda'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, printed on unadorned paper with no design, vignette, or printed text. The surface shows age-related foxing and staining consistent with the note's period of circulation, and bears several manuscript notations in ink added at a later date. |
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The Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda was the issuing authority for Buenos Aires province during a period when the Confederation and the province operated effectively as separate fiscal entities. By 1841, the Casa de Moneda had been printing paper money for over a decade — Argentina's first paper currency experiment had begun under Rivadavia in the 1820s — and chronic depreciation against metallic coin was already entrenched.
Printed locally rather than abroad, these notes were produced without the security infrastructure European printers could offer, which contributed to persistent counterfeiting problems throughout the series. The PS prefix in the Pick cataloguing reflects its classification as a provincial or special issue, distinct from national emissions.