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50 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Value | 50 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and red on white paper, with the bank title 'BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES' arched across the upper field. A central vignette presents a standing allegorical male figure in classical dress, flanked on the left by a portrait medallion of a uniformed military officer and on the right by a second uniformed portrait, each within ornate guilloche frames. The denomination '50' appears in large numerals at lower left and lower right, with the written legend 'CINCUENTA PESOS' across the lower centre, and the date 'ENERO 19 DE 1885' inscribed at upper left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown, with a dense geometric guilloche pattern filling the entire surface. An oval medallion at the left carries the numeral '50' in bold relief, while the inscription 'DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES' runs horizontally across the central field within an elaborately engraved lozenge-and-star border. The denomination '50' is repeated in the upper right and lower right corners within further guilloche cartouches. |
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The Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires was one of the few provincial institutions to survive the chaotic banking reforms of the 1880s with its note-issuing privileges largely intact — temporarily. This 50 Pesos was printed by ABNC in New York during a window of relative institutional confidence, before the catastrophic speculation and credit expansion that collapsed Argentina's financial system in 1890. The Baring Crisis effectively ended provincial note issuance as a meaningful practice.
ABNC's work for Argentine provincial banks in this period was prolific enough that plate elements were sometimes reused or adapted across different issuers, worth examining when verifying this note against similar contemporaries in the PS series.