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500 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown and red on a white ground, with an elaborate guilloche border framing the entire design. A central intaglio vignette portrays a gaucho on horseback in full gallop; the denomination numeral '500' appears in large figures at the upper left and right corners. Below the central vignette, portrait medallions of two statesmen appear at the lower left and lower right, with the inscription 'Quinientos Pesos' and a reference to the law of 5 November 1881 (Moneda Nacional, Oro) centered beneath them. The bank title 'BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA' runs across the top, with 'BUENOS AIRES' in bold letters across the middle band. |
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| 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.