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100 Australes
| Issuer | Provincia de La Rioja |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in shades of pink and red on a plain white ground, occupied almost entirely by the authorising legislative text of Ley 4534, set in small letterpress type across multiple numbered articles. The denomination numeral 100 appears in large figures at the upper left, with the title legend repeated across the top, and the vertical inscription Cien Australes running along the right margin. A barcode column with colour-coded bars mirrors the obverse security element at the far right edge. |
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| Protection description | A printed barcode with colour-coded rectangular bars appears on the left edge of the obverse and right edge of the reverse; serial number printed twice on the obverse. |
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La Rioja's provincial australes were issued under the emergency financing arrangements that several Argentine provinces adopted in the mid-1980s as the federal government struggled with chronic fiscal shortfalls. These notes functioned as quasi-money — technically obligations of the province rather than legal tender in the national sense, yet accepted locally by administrative necessity. The Casa de Moneda printing is routine for the series, but the inclusion of a barcode as a security feature is worth noting: relatively few provincial emergency issues of this period incorporated machine-readable elements.
La Rioja was among the smaller provincial issuers, and lower-denomination australes from this series circulated hard and survived poorly.