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20 Pesos
| Issuer | Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1844 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown intaglio-printed note with two oval cartouches at left and right each bearing the word VEINTE, flanking a central text panel reading LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES / Reconoce este Billete por / VEINTE PESOS MONEDA CORRIENTE / Por la Junta de Administracion de la Casa de Moneda, with a bold patriotic legend across the top reading ¡VIVA LA CONFEDERACION ARGENTINA! / ¡MUERAN LOS SALVAGES UNITARIOS!. A central lower vignette presents a group of galloping horses in letterpress, with the numeral 20 at center beneath two manuscript signatures and the date 1º de Abril de 1844 at lower right. The denomination VEINTE PESOS is repeated vertically along the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | ¡VIVA LA CONFEDERACION ARGENTINA! ¡MUERAN LOS SALVAGES UNITARIOS! LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES Reconoce este Billete por VEINTE PESOS MONEDA CORRIENTE Por la Junta de Administracion de la Casa de Moneda VEINTE 20 1º de Abril de 1844 |
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The Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda was the issuing body tied to the Buenos Aires mint during the Rosas period — a time when the province operated its own currency entirely independent of any national monetary framework, Argentina as a unified state not yet existing. These peso notes functioned within a monetary system that had been running on paper since the founding of the Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires's predecessor in 1822, and by the 1840s chronic inflation had already badly eroded public confidence.
PS#391 is a scarce series; surviving examples in any condition are rarely offered.