5 Australes

Jujuy's provincial austral issues of 1986 were emergency quasi-money, printed during the period of acute federal fiscal stress that followed Argentina's Austral Plan launch in June of that year. The national government's attempt to stabilize hyperinflationary pressure left provincial administrations chronically short of circulating currency, prompting several Argentine provinces to issue their own notes — technically obligations against the provincial treasury rather than legal tender in the strict sense.

Ciccone Calcografica, the Buenos Aires intaglio printer responsible for much of Argentina's domestic banknote production in this period, handled the series. Provincial issues from this era were typically redeemed or withdrawn within a few years as federal transfers resumed, which kept surviving examples scarce relative to their original print runs.