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20 Pesos
| Issuer | Tesorería General de la República Argentina |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-green tinted note with letterpress text throughout. The Argentine national arms vignette is centered at the top, flanked by the bold inscription REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA and the legislative authority LEY DE 1° DE OCTUBRE DE 1860. The body of the note carries a handwritten promise-to-pay text issued from Paraná, with the large numeral 20 printed at the lower right as a denomination indicator. Border rules frame the note on all sides, with the repeated legend POR VEINTE PESOS appearing at top and bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | POR VEINTE PESOS. Nº 00328 Por Veinte Pesos REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA LEY DE 1° DE OCTUBRE DE 1860 Paraná La Tesorería General pagará a los [días] meses de la fecha, al portador, la cantidad de veinte pesos (de diez y seis onzas de oro), con mas el interés del uno por ciento mensual Vence el día Por El Ministro de Hacienda El Contador General POR VEINTE PESOS. |
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The Tesorería General de la República Argentina was a treasury-based issuing authority, not a central bank — Argentina had none until 1872, with the Banco Nacional. These treasury notes from the early 1860s circulated during a period when Buenos Aires province and the Argentine Confederation had only recently resolved their decade-long political rupture, reunifying in 1861 after the Battle of Pavón. Federal fiscal infrastructure was still being assembled from scratch.
Printed domestically at a time when most South American governments contracted European firms, the local production reflects both the logistical difficulty of overseas contracting and the new national government's push for administrative self-sufficiency. Quality control on domestic presswork of this period was inconsistent.