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8 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de Londres y Río de La Plata, Rosario |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company |
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| Obverse description | Horizontal format note with the heading ROSARIO and REPUBLICA ARGENTINA at top center, beneath which the bank title BANCO DE LONDRES Y RIO DE LA PLATA is set within an ornate guilloche cartouche, with the denomination 8 PESOS FUERTES stated above and OCHO PESOS below. To the left, an intaglio portrait vignette of a uniformed military figure in three-quarter view occupies the central left panel, while a smaller allegorical vignette of a figure with a barrel appears at the lower right. The left stub panel bears manuscript annotations for number, value, and date, with the overprint SPECIMEN across the lower center and a manuscript bank signature dated Rosario 15 de Setiembre 1866. |
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| Obverse lettering | ROSARIO REPUBLICA ARGENTINA BANCO DE LONDRES Y RIO DE LA PLATA 8 PESOS FUERTES OCHO PESOS SPECIMEN POR EL BANCO Nº Valor 8 Pesos Fuertes Fecha 186 |
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The Banco de Londres y Río de La Plata was a British-backed institution established in Buenos Aires in 1862, one of the first foreign commercial banks to operate in Argentina. The Rosario branch opened shortly after, serving the booming grain and cattle export trade along the Paraná river corridor. This 8-peso-fuertes denomination is an unusual one — not a standard unit of commercial accounting — and likely reflects the bank's attempt to service specific exchange values tied to gold conversion rates current at the time of issue.
The American Bank Note Company printed for dozens of South American issuers during the 1860s, and the firm's New York production gave these notes a security quality that locally printed alternatives could not match.