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500 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco y Casa de Moneda de Buenos Ayres |
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| Year | 1864 |
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| Value | 500 Pesos |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a faint ghost impression of the obverse design printed in pale blue, serving as an underprint security background. A black typeface block at upper left identifies the Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Archivo y Museo Históricos, with an address in Buenos Aires. A central text block in Spanish states that this is a facsimile of the obverse of the 500 pesos moneda corriente note issued by the Bank dated 1 January 1864, printed from the original cliché, and produced in the Bank's printing workshops in 1977. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES ARCHIVO Y MUSEO HISTORICOS CORDOBA 934 Piso 1° BUENOS AIRES Tel. 392-0509 Réplica del anverso del billete de 500 pesos moneda corriente, correspondiente a la emisión del Banco con fecha "1° de Enero de 1864". Impreso con el clisé original. Confeccionado en sus Talleres Gráficos. Año 1977 |
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The Banco y Casa de Moneda de Buenos Ayres occupied a peculiar institutional position — it was simultaneously a bank of issue and a mint, a combination that reflected the chaotic state of Argentine monetary organization in the mid-nineteenth century. By 1864, the province of Buenos Aires had only recently been reintegrated into the Argentine Confederation following the Battle of Pavón in 1861, and provincial banking structures were still operating with considerable autonomy from any national framework.
The 500 Pesos denomination was not everyday currency. At that value, these notes moved through commercial and government transactions rather than retail trade, which means survivor rates tend to reflect archival storage rather than pocket wear.