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50 Pesos La Junta de Conversión
| Issuer | Junta de Conversión |
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| Year | 1910 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black print on yellow-green underprint. The obverse bears a portrait vignette of Simón Bolívar at right and the Colombian Arms at left, with the denomination and issuing authority legends arranged across the face. The date reads Bogotá, August 1910, with an amortization clause inscribed below the denomination. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in olive on a plain paper ground, the reverse is composed entirely of finely engraved lathe-work guilloché patterns filling the entire field, with large numeral counters '50' at left and right within ornate scroll medallions. A central oval panel carries a manuscript signature above the legend 'JEFE DE LA OFICINA DE CAJA DE LA JUNTA DE CONVERSION', flanked by the denomination 'Cincuenta Pesos' at top and 'REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA' at bottom. The imprint 'AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK' appears in small lettering at the base. |
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The Junta de Conversión was Argentina's currency conversion board, established under the 1899 Conversion Law to fix the peso moneda nacional to gold at a rate of 2.2727 paper pesos per gold peso. These notes replaced the earlier issues of the Caja de Conversión and circulated during a period of relative monetary stability — unusual by Argentine standards of the period.
ABNC's engraved work for Argentine issues of this era is among the finest in their South American portfolio. The Hernández 791 reference places this squarely in the standard 1910 series run, prior to the gold convertibility suspension forced by World War One in 1914.