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5 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and pink note with an elaborate guilloche border enclosing the central design. A central oval vignette presents a female allegorical figure in classical dress, flanked to the left by a smaller oval vignette of a bull and to the right by the Argentine coat of arms. The issuer's name arcs across the top within a decorative cartouche, with the denomination stated in both numeral and text form at lower center, and ruled lines for series, number, and signature positions for Consejero and Gerente. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green and pink on plain paper, the reverse carries a large ornate guilloche underprint with the numeral "5" at center within a circular lathe-work rosette. A portrait vignette of a female head in classical style appears to the right within a circular guilloche frame, with the numeral "5" repeated in each corner. |
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Banco de San Juan was one of several Argentine provincial banks that issued notes under the currency reforms of the 1850s and 1860s, a period when Buenos Aires and the interior provinces were still negotiating the terms of monetary federation. Provincial paper circulated on local trust and was frequently discounted outside its home province — a San Juan 5 Pesos Fuerte was worth considerably less in Rosario or Córdoba than it claimed on its face.
The "Fuertes" denomination distinguished these notes from the heavily inflated Pesos Moneda Corriente, at a fixed rate of 25 to 1.