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2 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Rosario |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1543 |
| Obverse description | The obverse carries a seated allegorical female figure at lower left, rendered in intaglio, alongside a central vignette of a jaguar or puma at upper right. The denomination numeral '2' appears in large figures at both upper corners, with the date '1° Setiembre de 1866' and the city name 'Rosario' inscribed above the central text panel. The issuer's name 'EL BANCO ARGENTINO' is printed in bold letterpress across the centre, with the denomination 'DOS PESOS FUERTES' below, over a fine guilloche underprint. Signature lines at the bottom are captioned 'EL GERENTE' and 'EL PRESIDENTE'. |
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| Obverse lettering | ROSARIO EL BANCO ARGENTINO DOS PESOS FUERTES Págame a la vista al Portador dando dos pesos de la misma especie por uno de sus billetes EL GERENTE EL PRESIDENTE 1° Setiembre de 1866 |
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The Banco Argentino operated out of Rosario, then a rapidly expanding commercial port city that had only been formally declared a city in 1858. Provincial banking in Argentina during the 1860s was a fragmented affair — each institution issued its own paper under minimal federal oversight, and the American Bank Note Company became the dominant printer for this market precisely because Argentine authorities lacked the technical infrastructure to produce secure intaglio work domestically.
PS1543 is among the earlier entries in the provincial Argentine series. The bank itself had a short operational window before the banking consolidation pressures of the 1870s reshaped the sector.