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10 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de Cuyo |
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| Value | 10 Pesos Fuertes |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a tricolour arrangement — green at left, blue-grey at centre, and rose-red at right — each panel enclosed within fine guilloche lace borders. Each panel bears an oval portrait vignette of a classically draped female head in profile, with the denomination numeral "10" repeated in guilloche cartouches at all corners and at the centre of the middle panel. The overall composition is ornamental, with no pictorial landscape elements. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 |
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Banco de Cuyo operated out of Mendoza and was one of several provincial banks that briefly flourished under Argentina's decentralized banking regime before the Banco Nacional absorbed or displaced most of them in the 1870s. Provincial notes of this period were frequently refused at par outside their home province, making cross-Andean trade — for which Mendoza was a natural hub — a perpetual negotiation over discount rates.
PS-prefix placement in the Standard Catalog reflects its classification as a private or provincial issue rather than a national one. Surviving examples are genuinely uncommon; Cuyo-region bank paper has not attracted the collector pressure that Buenos Aires issues have, which has kept prices understated relative to actual scarcity.