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50 Pesos
| Issuer | Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1869 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper central vignette presents two allegorical female figures reclining in a pastoral landscape with classical architectural ruins in the background. To the lower left, a gaucho seated on the ground plays a guitar, rendered in fine intaglio engraving; to the lower right, a portrait vignette of a uniformed military figure in profile. The denomination '50' appears in large guilloche-framed numerals at the upper corners, with the issuer's name 'PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES' in bold letterpress across the centre, above the handwritten date and printed legend 'CINCUENTA PESOS moneda corriente' in red. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing only the blind embossed impression of the obverse design through the paper, with the mirror image of the central vignettes and corner numerals faintly visible as a show-through effect. |
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The Provincia de Buenos Ayres operated its own note-issuing apparatus entirely separately from the Argentine Confederation for much of the nineteenth century — Buenos Aires had refused to join the Confederation until 1859 and retained its provincial bank well after political unification. By 1869, the Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires was among the most established issuing institutions on the continent, and commissioning ABNC in New York was a deliberate signal of institutional credibility at a time when provincial paper was still viewed with suspicion in rural districts.
PS#489 sits in a denomination range that would have seen limited everyday handling — fifty pesos was a substantial sum — so surviving examples frequently show less wear than lower values in the same series.