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500 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Value | 500 Pesos |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in red-pink on white paper. To the left, a large circular intaglio vignette encloses a scene of a man restraining a rearing horse, with figures visible in the background. The right half of the note is occupied by an intricate rosette guilloche pattern with the numeral '500' at its centre. Corner numerals '500' appear at all four corners, and the bank name is divided across the top ('BANCO DE LA') and bottom arc of the circular vignette ('PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES'). |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES 500 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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The Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires was one of the few provincial institutions to survive Argentina's turbulent banking reorganizations of the 1870s with its note-issuing authority intact. By 1881, the Province was operating in open defiance of the national government's repeated attempts to centralize currency issuance in Buenos Aires — this denomination reflects that institutional confidence, as 500 Pesos was not a note printed for small transactions.
ABNC's involvement placed this series among the better-engraved provincial Argentine paper of the period. The company held the contract through several successive issues for the Province.