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8 Centésimos de Peso de Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la Província de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper, issued by El Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. At left, a vignette of Minerva in profile wearing a crested helmet; at right, an engraved portrait of a bearded gentleman in formal attire. The central text panel carries the denomination OCHO CENTESIMOS DE PESO DE ORO in bold letterpress, flanked by numeral 8 counters at each corner, with the date 1° DE ENERO DE 1883 at top and printer's imprint of the American Bank Note Co., New York at the base. |
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| Variants | PS#530 - Muestra (Specimen) overprint |
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The Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires had been printing paper money since the 1820s, but by 1881 it was operating under severe constraints — the Argentine national government was actively consolidating monetary authority, and provincial banks were fighting to retain relevance. This 8 centésimos denomination is an odd fraction that reflects the transitional arithmetic of the period, when old peso moneda corriente values were being converted into the new peso fuerte scale at rates that produced these awkward subunits.
ABNC's New York workshops handled the plate work. The denomination itself was short-lived; within a decade, provincial note issuance of this type had effectively ended.