10 Pesos

Mendoza's 2002 emergency note was one of dozens of provincial quasi-currencies — known collectively as "cuasimonedas" — that flooded Argentina following the December 2001 convertibility collapse and the federal freeze on bank deposits. With the peso pegged and then shattered, provinces lacking federal transfers began printing their own obligations to pay government salaries and keep local commerce moving. Mendoza's series circulated alongside similar instruments from Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos, and Corrientes, among others.

Casa de Moneda printed these under contract, which gave the provincial notes a more finished appearance than some counterparts — La Rioja's "Riojanos," for instance, were produced under considerably less controlled conditions. Federal reabsorption of the cuasimonedas began in 2003.