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4 Reales
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda y Banco de la Provincia de Corrientes |
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| Year | 1861 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain note with a central rectangular cartouche enclosing the denomination text, set against a typographed surround bearing the full institutional name in curved lettering along the borders. The denomination numeral '4' appears in relief on both left and right flanks of the central panel, with a small arms vignette at the upper left. The overall design is typeset rather than engraved, consistent with provincial emergency issues of the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | CASA de MONEDA y BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA de CORRIENTES CUATRO REALES Moneda Corriente. |
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Corrientes was one of the few Argentine provinces that maintained its own currency well into the national period, resisting absorption into a unified monetary system long after most other provinces had surrendered that function. The Banco de la Província de Corrientes operated with considerable independence, and its 1861 issues came at a moment of acute political tension between the province and Buenos Aires — the same friction that had defined Argentine federalism for decades.
The 4 Reales denomination places this squarely in the colonial Spanish accounting system, still in common use in the interior provinces even a generation after independence. Pick's PS prefix signals quasi-governmental or provisional status, which tracks with Corrientes's chronically undercapitalized banking arrangements of the period.