5 Pesos

Corrientes was one of the few Argentine provinces that maintained its own independent paper currency well into the second half of the nineteenth century, largely because the province's geographic isolation — bounded by the Paraná and Uruguay rivers — made trade with Buenos Aires awkward and its monetary integration even more so. This 5 Pesos note from 1848 predates the national currency unification by decades, issued under a provincial government that operated with considerable autonomy during the long period of Confederation-era political fragmentation.

The handstamp security feature is characteristic of locally produced issues from Corrientes, where sophisticated printing infrastructure simply didn't exist — authentication relied on physical stamps applied by officials rather than engraved complexity in the paper itself.