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20 Pesos
| Issuer | Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1841 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in reddish-brown ink on plain paper, the obverse carries the patriotic motto VIVA LA FEDERACION at the top, with a central vignette of a galloping horse in profile set against a hatched ground. The denomination 20 appears in oval cartouches at each corner, with VEINTE PESOS in vertical side panels; the issuing authority text Por la Junta de la Administracion de la Casa de Moneda and the date ABRIL 1° 1841 are inscribed in manuscript-style lettering below the vignette, accompanied by two handwritten signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | VIVA LA FEDERACION LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS-AYRES VEINTE PESOS MONEDA CORRIENTE. Por la Junta de la Administracion de la Casa de Moneda ABRIL 1° 1841 20 VEINTE PESOS |
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The Casa de Moneda in Buenos Aires had been issuing paper currency since the 1820s, but by 1841 the institution was operating under the political grip of Juan Manuel de Rosas, whose government used the mint's note-issuing capacity heavily to finance both administration and military expenditure. Chronic over-issuance had already begun depreciating the peso paper against the peso fuerte — a process that would accelerate dramatically through the 1840s.
Locally printed rather than contracted abroad, this series shows it. The engraving and presswork lack the precision of contemporary British or French-produced South American issues, and the paper quality was inconsistent enough that forgery detection was a genuine institutional concern during the period.