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100 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco J. Benites é Hijo |
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| Year | 1867 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1565 |
| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and yellow on white paper. At centre, a large intaglio vignette portrays a shepherd resting with sheep in a pastoral landscape; to the lower left, a smaller medallion vignette presents a female bust in classical attire with a headdress. Yellow guilloche rosettes bearing the numeral '100' appear in the upper left and lower left corners, with the bank title 'BANCO J. BENITES É HIJO' in bold letterpress across the top. To the right, a secondary vignette depicts cattle near a river, and the central panel carries the handwritten promise-to-pay text in Spanish with the place and date 'Gualeguaychú, Octubre 15 de 1867'. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO J. BENITES É HIJO Pagarán al portador y á la vista CIEN PESOS FUERTES en moneda metálica de curso legal Gualeguaychú, Octubre 15 de 1867 100 |
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Banco J. Benites é Hijo was a private commercial bank operating in Argentina during the brief window before the provincial banking system collapsed and federal regulation tightened in the 1870s. Notes of this type were issued under Argentine provincial banking laws that permitted private institutions to circulate their own paper — a freedom that ended badly for most of them. The American Bank Note Company handled the printing, as it did for the majority of South American private bank issues in this period.
PS#1565 is genuinely rare. Few private Argentine bank notes from the 1860s survived in any quantity, and Benites issues are among the scarcest.