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60 Centavos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan - Sucursal (Branch) Tucumán |
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| Year | 1878 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries the bank title EL BANCO DE SAN JUAN in an arched inscription at the top, flanked on either side by oval vignettes bearing the denomination 0.60 in bold numerals. A central vignette depicts a rural pastoral scene with cattle and a horseman, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The lower portion bears a handwritten promise-to-pay text reading SESENTA CENTAVOS FUERTES, a manuscript date referencing Tucumán 1878, and a red manuscript serial number, all framed within an ornate guilloche border. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE SAN JUAN 0.60 SESENTA CENTAVOS FUERTES TUCUMÁN |
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Banco de San Juan was one of several provincial banks authorized under Argentina's 1854 banking legislation, but a branch issuing its own fractional notes from Tucumán is an unusual arrangement — reflecting the chronic small-change shortages that plagued the interior provinces throughout the 1870s, where federal coin rarely circulated in sufficient volume. The "fuertes" denomination was the old hard-currency unit, still used in pricing even as its relationship to actual silver had become largely nominal by this date.
PS#1896 is among the scarcer San Juan provincial issues. The Tucumán branch's independent emission authority was short-lived.