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5000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Central de la República Argentina |
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| Year | 1962-1969 |
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| In circulation to | 29 March 1979 |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green and brown intaglio-printed note on a fine guilloche underprint, with a large blank oval watermark reserve at left. An oval intaglio vignette at right carries a finely engraved bust portrait of General José de San Martín in military uniform, while the issuer title and denomination legend are set in ornate letterpress across the upper and central fields. Two manuscript signatures with printed titles appear at the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Argentina's chronic inflation through the 1960s eroded the peso's purchasing power so severely that a 5,000-peso note — an almost unthinkable denomination a decade earlier — became routine pocket money by the end of this series' run. The Banco Central issued it across a seven-year window precisely because no single replacement denomination proved stable enough to retire it cleanly.
Giorgio Nicastro's engraving work for the Casa de Moneda was among the more technically accomplished domestic plate work of the period — Argentina had long relied on foreign security printers, and this series reflected a deliberate push toward fully in-house production.