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500 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Value | 500 Pesos Fuertes |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out in a horizontal format with a light blue and brown guilloche underprint. Two allegorical female figures in intaglio stand in vertical oval vignettes flanking the central text panel — one to the left holding a staff and shield, one to the right cradling an infant. The central panel bears the bank's name in bold letterpress, the provincial coat of arms, the denomination '500 QUINIENTOS PESOS FUERTES' repeated along the top and bottom borders, and a manuscript promise-to-pay legend. The left stub area carries printed lines for serial number, date, and place fields. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES QUINIENTOS 500 PESOS FUERTES Buenos Aires, Julio 1ro 1865 Pagará al portador y á la vista en moneda de ode la ley la cantidad de 500 QUINIENTOS PESOS FUERTES 500 Sr. los Directores BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES |
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The Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires was the dominant financial institution in the Argentine littoral by the 1860s, operating essentially as a provincial central bank and issuing currency that circulated more widely than many national issues of the period. The 500 Pesos Fuertes denomination was the highest-value note in this series — not everyday commercial paper, but an instrument of large mercantile settlements and government transactions.
ABNC produced these under contract at a moment when Argentine issuers were among their most active Latin American clients. At this denomination, surviving examples are genuinely rare; high-value notes of this era were typically redeemed, cancelled, and destroyed rather than retained.