60 Centavos Fuertes

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.