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Argentina's provinces rarely issued their own circulating paper money after the nineteenth century, but the hyperinflationary collapse of the late 1980s forced several provincial governments to print emergency quasi-money called "bonos" to pay wages and cover local expenditures when federal currency simply dried up. Jujuy, one of the poorest and most geographically isolated provinces, was among those that turned to provincial emission out of fiscal desperation rather than any formal monetary authority.

The irony of Casa de Moneda printing these notes is worth noting — the same federal institution whose monetary failures helped precipitate the crisis was contracted to produce the emergency paper meant to work around it.