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500 Pesos
| Issuer | Provincia de Mendoza |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 500 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Dark intaglio-printed note on a pale ground with fine guilloche borders and corner numerals reading 500. A central oval vignette contains an allegorical female figure of Justice or Commerce seated, holding scales and a cornucopia, set against an engine-turned underprint. The upper register carries the inscription PROVINCIA DE MENDOZA flanked by SERIE I at left and right, while the face text identifies the instrument as a LETRA DE TESORERÍA for QUINIENTOS PESOS MON. NAC., dated Mendoza, Diciembre de 1914, with two manuscript signatures below their respective titles Ministro de Hacienda and Presidente del Crédito Público. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red-brown on a lighter ground, the reverse centres on a large allegorical vignette of two putti amid a profusion of fruit and foliage, framed by guilloche work and bold corner numeral panels reading 500. The upper border carries PROVINCIA DE MENDOZA and QUINIENTOS PESOS in large letters. A rectangular text panel in the lower centre sets out the UNIFICACIÓN POR CANJE conditions, citing applicable provincial laws governing the acceptance of the notes. |
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Mendoza's provincial bond issues of the early 1910s occupy an awkward category — not quite banking notes, not quite government bonds, but emergency instruments issued by provinces that lacked access to sufficient national currency during a period when the Caja de Conversión kept a tight grip on paper money supply. The 500 Pesos denomination placed this firmly in commercial rather than retail circulation; ordinary wages in the Argentine interior were nowhere near that figure.
Gez Kraft was a well-regarded Buenos Aires lithographic house of the period, handling commercial and government printing work across several Argentine provinces. Their output is generally competent but rarely distinguished technically.