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50 Pesos

Issuer Banco Nacional
Year 1881
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Composition Cotton paper
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Obverse description Black intaglio print on pink-tinted paper. The central vignette presents a pastoral rural landscape with agricultural implements and figures in an engraved oval frame, flanked on the left by an allegorical vignette of a cherub or infant figure with foliage, and on the right by a portrait bust of a uniformed military figure in profile. The bank title 'EL BANCO NACIONAL' arches across the upper portion in bold letterpress, with the denomination '50' repeated in the upper corners and the legend 'Cincuenta Pesos' in ornate script below the central vignette.
Obverse lettering EL BANCO NACIONAL
PAGARA AL PORTADOR Y A LA VISTA
Cincuenta Pesos
MONEDA NACIONAL, ORO, SEGUN LEY
DE 5 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1881
BUENOS AIRES, ENERO 1 DE 1883
50
Reverse description Uniformly printed in rose-red on a dense geometric guilloche underprint. Two large quatrefoil medallions, each bearing the numeral '50', flank a central elaborate rosette guilloche medallion of intricate star and lace patterning. The bank name 'EL BANCO NACIONAL' is inscribed in a panel at the top centre and 'BUENOS AIRES' at the bottom centre, all set within ornate lathe-work borders.
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