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100 Pesos

Issuer Daniel González y Ca. en Liquidación
Year 1879
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Currency Peso (1826-1985)
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Obverse lettering El Banco DANIEL GONZALEZ y Ca. en Liquidacion
Reconoce deber al Portador la suma de
CIEN PESOS
de cuatro Chirotas plata de ley.
Este título es emitido conforme á los incisos 2° y 3° del artículo 3° del Convenio estrajudicial de 28 de Junio de 1879 aceptado por Acreedores y Deudores.
MENDOZA 188
El Presidente de la Comision Liquidadora:
El Gerente de la Casa en Liquidacion:
MUESTRA MUESTRA
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Variants PS#1977 - Muestra (Specimen) overprint
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Daniel González y Ca. was a private commercial house operating in Argentina that issued notes under its own authority before the country's banking consolidation efforts took hold. The "en Liquidación" designation in the issuer name is telling — this note was produced by, or at least attributed to, a firm already in the process of winding down its affairs, which raises immediate questions about how widely these circulated and whether redemption was ever reliably honored.

Private commercial paper of this type from late 1870s Argentina is genuinely scarce in any condition. Most liquidating firms' notes were simply never redeemed and were discarded.

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