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1 Peso Fuerte
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | SAN JUAN EL BANCO DE SAN JUAN Serie D. pagará al portador y a la vista UN PESO FUERTE en moneda de ley UN PESO Consejero Gerente |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in pink with no additional colours. Two oval portrait vignettes — each showing a female allegorical bust in profile — flank a large central ornamental panel bearing a stylised numeral 1 surrounded by radiating guilloche work. The overall composition is filled with intricate lathe-work rosettes and interlocking scroll borders typical of mid-nineteenth-century intaglio bank-note engraving. |
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Banco de San Juan was one of several Argentine provincial banks authorized to issue notes following the 1853 constitution, which granted provinces considerable latitude in establishing local financial institutions before the eventual move toward centralized monetary control in the 1890s. San Juan province, landlocked and dependent on mining and agriculture, had limited commercial banking infrastructure, and these early emissions were as much about regional political assertion as practical liquidity.
PS#1880 is among the scarcer provincial Argentine issues in the Pick Specialized catalog. Documentation on exact print runs, issuing dates, and redemption history for this series remains fragmentary.