50 Pesos

Corrientes issued its own quasi-currency during the Argentine economic crisis of the early 2000s, when provincial governments, unable to meet payroll and public expenditure obligations as the federal government collapsed inward, began printing their own bonds and emergency notes. These circulated as de facto money alongside — and eventually instead of — the national peso. Corrientes was among the more aggressive provincial issuers, and its paper was accepted in local commerce out of sheer necessity rather than confidence.

The February 2001 date places this note in the early phase of the crisis, before the full convertibility collapse of December 2001 that drew international attention.