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10 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan |
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| Year | 18__ |
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| Value | 10 Pesos Fuertes |
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| Obverse lettering | SAN JUAN El Banco de San Juan Serie D. DIEZ PESOS FUERTES pagará al portador y á la vista en moneda de ley San Juan, de 18 Por el Banco Consejero Gerente 10 |
| Reverse description | Printed in red-orange with a blue-grey guilloche underprint, the reverse is dominated by three oval portrait vignettes arranged horizontally across the centre: two smaller busts of male figures flank a larger central bust of a male figure, all rendered in intaglio. Corner counters display the numeral '10' in each of the four corners within ornamental frames, and a repeating guilloche border runs along all edges. |
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The Banco de San Juan was one of several provincial Argentine banks chartered in the 1850s and 1860s under a fragmented federal banking system that allowed individual provinces to issue their own currency. San Juan, a small Andean province dependent on wine and mining, had limited commercial activity — which means notes from this bank saw restricted circulation and were not printed in large quantities.
The undated "18__" format was standard ABNC practice for provincial Latin American clients: plates were engraved once, with the year left blank for hand-completion at time of issue. PS#1882 is among the scarcer San Juan entries in the Pick specialized catalog.