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100 Pesos La Provincia de Buenos Ayres
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1848 |
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| Value | 100 Pesos (100 ARF) |
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| Obverse lettering | ¡VIVA LA CONFEDERACION ARGENTINA! ¡MUERAN LOS SALVAJES UNITARIOS! LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES Reconoce este Billete por CIEN PESOS MONEDA CORRIENTE Por la Junta de Administracion de la Casa de Moneda 1° NOVIEMBRE 1848 (Translation: LONG LIVE THE ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION! DEATH TO THE SAVAGE UNITARIANS! THE PROVINCE OF BUENOS AYRES Recognizes this Banknote for ONE HUNDRED PESOS CURRENT CURRENCY By the Board of Administration of the Mint 1st NOVEMBER 1848) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, presenting plain aged paper with no design elements, lettering, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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The Casa de Moneda de Buenos Aires operated under the tight political grip of Juan Manuel de Rosas throughout the late 1840s, and note issuance during this period was driven more by fiscal desperation than monetary planning. The province had been effectively cut off from significant foreign credit, and paper emissions from the Casa de Moneda functioned as forced liquidity in an economy starved of hard coin.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference reflects its classification as a regional rather than national issue — Buenos Ayres province maintained its own monetary apparatus entirely separately from any federal structure, which barely existed in any coherent form until 1853.