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1 Peso Fuerte
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan - Sucursal (Branch) Tucumán |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and pink on white paper, with an elaborate guilloche border framing the entire note. A vignette on the left centre depicts a condor perched on a rock, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The upper portion bears the overprint 'TUCUMAN' within a rectangular panel, with the bank title 'EL BANCO DE SAN JUAN' in bold letterpress across the centre, the denomination 'UN PESO FUERTE' in large display type below, and 'UN PESO' along the bottom; a large ornamental '1' appears at right within a decorative panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | TUCUMAN EL BANCO DE SAN JUAN Serie D. pagará al portador y a la vista UN PESO FUERTE en moneda de ley Tucuman, de 18 Por el Banco Consejero Gerente UN PESO |
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Banco de San Juan operated as one of Argentina's provincial banks during the mid-nineteenth century, authorized to issue notes through branch offices in other provinces. A Tucumán branch issuing San Juan paper is itself an artifact of Argentina's fragmented pre-national banking period, when no central authority controlled note issuance and a note from one province circulating in another was a matter of commercial necessity rather than policy.
The "Peso Fuerte" denomination distinguished hard-currency-backed paper from the inflated "Peso Moneda Corriente" notes that plagued Argentine commerce throughout this period — a distinction that mattered enormously to merchants and meant little to most laborers paid in whatever paper was at hand.