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6 1/4 Centésimos
| Issuer | Banco Comercial de Corrientes |
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| Year | 1867 |
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| Printer | Lit. San Martín |
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| Obverse description | Blue note printed by letterpress on blue paper, with a rectangular border of guilloche-style ornamental frames. A central vignette depicts a rooster facing right, flanked by decorative scrollwork. The issuer's name arches across the upper portion of the note, with the denomination rendered in bold text across the lower central field; a vertical panel at left repeats the denomination and date in cursive script. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO COMERCIAL DE CORRIENTES Pagará a la vista SEIS Y CUARTO CENTESIMOS al portador de este billete. Corrientes 1º de Febrero 1867 Por el Banco Seis y cuarto centesimos Corrientes 1º de Febrero 1867 Lit. SAN MARTIN Calle S. Martin 128 Aº |
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The Banco Comercial de Corrientes was one of several provincial banks that flourished in Argentina during the prolonged period of monetary fragmentation before the country established a unified national currency. Corrientes province maintained its own banking and emission apparatus well into the 1860s, and fractional denominations like this one — expressed in centésimos rather than pesos — reflect the chronic shortage of small-denomination currency that plagued interior commerce throughout this period.
Lit. San Martín was a local Corrientes lithographer, which makes this an unusually provincial production. Most Argentine fractional notes of the era were farmed out to Buenos Aires printers at minimum.