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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Provincia de Mendoza |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | A vignette of an oil derrick dominates the right side of the note against a landscape underprint in pink and blue guilloche patterns. To the left, the large numeral "5" appears in red, with the denomination "CINCO" printed in bold red letterpress across the centre. Two facsimile signatures appear in the lower portion, attributed to the Contador General and the Tesorero General de la Provincia, with the Casa de Moneda imprint at the lower left and a provincial coat of arms vignette at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is laid out in a document-style format with a pale yellow and orange guilloche border framing a multi-article legal text printed in black. The header identifies the instrument and its legislative authority, with the body reproducing selected articles from the authorising law regarding issuance limits, guarantee mechanisms, and maturity conditions. |
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Mendoza issued its own quasi-currency during the 2001–2002 Argentine financial collapse, when the federal government froze bank deposits under the corralito and provincial administrations were left unable to meet payroll. These notes — formally called Bonos de Cancelación de Deuda — functioned as a parallel circulating medium accepted for provincial taxes and utility payments, a workaround that technically kept them on the right side of the constitutional prohibition on provincial currency.
Casa de Moneda printed emergency paper for at least eight provinces simultaneously during this period, an unprecedented domestic production load.