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5 Pesos

Issuer Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda, Buenos Ayres
Year 1841
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Currency Peso (1826-1985)
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Obverse lettering ¡VIVA LA FEDERACION!
LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES
Reconoce este CINCO PESOS
Billete por MONEDA CORRte
Por la Junta de la Admón. de la Casa de Moneda
CINCO
Reverse description The reverse is plain, printed on pink-toned cotton paper with no vignettes or inscriptions, showing only the natural texture and aging of the paper stock.
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The Junta de la Administración de la Casa de Moneda was Buenos Aires province's monetary authority during a period when Argentine national unification remained decades away — each province effectively ran its own currency. This 5 Pesos note dates to the height of the Rosas administration, issued while Juan Manuel de Rosas held his second governorship under the Federalist banner. Provincial paper money from this period circulated under conditions of chronic depreciation; the Buenos Aires peso had been inflating steadily since the 1820s banking experiments.

Printing in-house at the Casa de Moneda rather than contracting European firms was itself a political choice — a assertion of local institutional capacity. Survivors in any grade are genuinely uncommon.

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