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Las Señoritas ArgentinasBanco Oxandaburo Y Garbino $5, 1869
Just as in North America, and around the world, Latin American economies in the 19th century were supported by currency issuing commercial banks. Many of these banks relied on American Banknote Company in New York to print their currencies, often with lovely feminine vignettes, sometimes stock vignettes such as this one for the feminine part of the note and the sailor. Notice the scenes from the Pampas rancho slaughterhouse. This vignette is unusual in that it was directly created for the Latin American market by ABNCO, and perhaps even just for this bank in Gualeguaycha. Many vignettes used on Latin American notes from this period can also be linked to notes issued by banks in N. America, it is probable that the vignette of the young miss, and the sailor are found on other N. American and perhaps Latin American notes, but the slaughterhouse scene, with horns, skulls, bones, and even vultures on the roof, surely this maybe unique. This really is an incredible amount of detail engraved for this scene.
Probably one of the more fascinating vignettes I have ever seen on paper money. One Peso
Justicia or Justice, is represented on this Argentinian Peso from the 1950's. Unfortunately justice in Argentina only became a reality some 35 years after this note was issued with the fall of the Galtieri government in the 1980's. |
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