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5 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 lettering | CINCO VIVA LA CONFEDERACION ARGENTINA! MUERAN LOS SALVAGES UNITARIOS! LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES Reconoce este Billote POR CINCO PESOS MONEDA CORRIENTE Por la Junta de Administracion de la Casa de Moneda 1.º Febrero 1844 5 CINCO 5 CINCO |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on cream-toned paper, bearing no deliberate design elements or inscriptions, with only faint offset impressions from the obverse face visible on the surface. |
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The Casa de Moneda in Buenos Aires was functioning as a de facto central bank by the 1840s, issuing paper currency under the Rosas administration at a time when the province's finances were under severe strain from prolonged conflict with Uruguay and French and British naval blockades. The Junta de la Administración was its governing body — technically separate from the mint function, though the two operated under the same roof.
PS#385 is provincially issued, not nationally. Argentine national banking infrastructure did not exist until 1854, a full decade after this note circulated.