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50 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Argentina |
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| Year | 1936-1943 |
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| Value | 50 Pesos (50 ARM) |
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| Obverse lettering | El Banco Central De La República Argentina pagará al portador y a la vista 50 PESOS Moneda Nacional LEY No. 12155 DEL 28 DE MARZO DE 1935 (Translation: The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic will pay the bearer and at sight 50 PESOS National Currency LAW No. 12155 OF MARCH 28, 1935) |
| Reverse description | The Argentine coat of arms occupies the central position, surrounded by laurel branches rendered in fine intaglio engraving, all printed in blue tones over a greenish paper ground. Geometric guilloche patterns and typographic borders frame the composition, with the denomination and issuer's name inscribed in bold capital lettering. |
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Louis-Eugène Mouchon was a French engraver best known for his postage stamp work — including the 1900 "Mouchon" definitive series for France — and his involvement here places this note within a broader tradition of Argentine notes produced or designed with European technical input during the interwar period. The Banco Central itself was only established in 1935, making this among the earliest issues under that institution's authority, supplanting the older Caja de Conversión notes that had dominated Argentine circulation for decades.
The series ran across a notably long window given the political turbulence of the period, surviving the 1943 military coup that ended the conservative Concordancia governments.