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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1844 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Printed in reddish-brown on white paper, the note is laid out in a letterpress style with the denomination numeral '10' repeated in each corner within oval cartouches. A central vignette occupies the upper-right area and depicts a pastoral scene with sheep grazing. The issuing authority text 'Por la Junta de Administracion de la Casa de Moneda' appears across the lower portion, above two manuscript signatures, with the date 'Marzo 1° de 1844' inscribed in the upper-right field alongside a handwritten serial number. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain unprinted paper, now heavily aged and stained, showing foxing and toning consistent with the note's considerable age. A faint offset impression of the obverse text is discernible through the sheet. No printed design, vignette, or inscription is present on this side. |
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The Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda was the monetary arm of Buenos Aires province, not a national institution — Argentina had no unified central bank at this point, and each province managed its own paper emissions. This note predates the Confederation's first serious attempt at monetary consolidation by over a decade.
Buenos Aires printed its own currency locally throughout this period, which distinguishes it from contemporaries like the Banco Nacional notes that relied on foreign presses. PS#386 sits in a series that circulated during the Rosas era, when the province's finances were chronically strained by military expenditure and trade disruptions linked to the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata, which began in 1845 — the year after this note was issued.