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500 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco y Casa de Moneda del Estado de Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1857 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in red ink and mirrors the obverse layout, with three vignette panels across the upper portion depicting the same agricultural, equestrian, and beehive motifs rendered in a lighter impression. The central guilloche band carries the repeated legend 'El Estado de Buenos Ayres' and the denomination line 'Quinientos', above the lower register with two oval '500' panels flanking the coat of arms. The inscription 'x el Directorio del Banco y Casa de Moneda' and the date '19 Agosto 1857' appear at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | El Estado de Buenos Ayres Reconoce este Billete por Quinientos pesos moneda corriente 500 x el Directorio del Banco y Casa de Moneda 19 Agosto 1857 |
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The Banco y Casa de Moneda del Estado de Buenos Ayres was a creature of provincial politics — Buenos Aires had seceded from the Argentine Confederation in 1852 following the battle of Caseros, and for nearly a decade the province operated as an independent state with its own currency, customs revenue, and banking apparatus. This note belongs to that interregnum period, when Buenos Aires peso notes were legal tender within the province but explicitly excluded from the rest of the territory that would later become the Argentine nation.
High-denomination provincial paper from this period is rarely encountered in collectible condition. The Buenos Aires monetary system collapsed under inflation well before reunification in 1861, and most surviving paper from the Casa de Moneda suffered accordingly.