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56 Centavos Fuertes = 4 Chirolas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional |
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| Year | 1880 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S667 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and displays an elaborate geometric guilloche pattern composed of interlocking circular medallions, each enclosing small vignettes with national symbols. The denomination '056' appears in the lower left and lower right corners within the ornamental border, and the overall design is framed by a finely engraved rectangular lathe-work border. |
| Reverse lettering | 056 Gullermo Kraft Reconocido R.A. |
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The "chirola" was a colloquial unit equal to 14 centavos fuertes — a distinctly Argentine popular accounting shorthand that occasionally surfaced in official fractional denominations during the 1870s–80s. This note's dual denomination inscription is one of the few cases where a formally chartered bank acknowledged vernacular currency language on its face text rather than leaving it to street usage alone.
Banco Nacional was established in 1872 and collapsed in 1891 during the severe financial crisis that also brought down Baring Brothers. Notes from the intervening fractional series, PS#665–668, are among the more elusive survivors of that institution's short life.