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ARGENTINA ARTICLES
THE SMALLEST OF THE BIGGEST

Posted October, 2000

 

The Central Bank put into circulation on January 18th the newly designed $20 peso banknote clarifying that the previous version of this denomination is still legal tender.

Printed in Buenos Aires by the State Mint (Sociedad del Estado Casa de Moneda), said specimen retains the basic features of the one in circulation while at the same time incorporating improvements in its esthetics and security features. It carries on the backside facsimilies of the signatures of the president of the B.C.R.A. and the President of the Senate.

The new banknote presents the following characteristics: Front side: effigy of Juan Manuel de Rosas; back side: battle of the Vuelta de Obligado; predominant colors: red and light green; measurements: 155 by 65 mm; paper cotton weighing 90 g/square meter; localized, molded, multitonal, and tridimensional watermark that reproduces Rosas' portrait and includes the initials of his name; invisible and florescent security fibers under ultraviolet light - these fibers show up in red, blue, and yellow; a security thread in the form of a fine, dark band, that, viewed through light, is seen in white and repeats the legend "BCRA $20" and under ultraviolet light it shows a red florescence; the printing on the front side with metal engraving and typographic numeration over offset security features; the reverse side has the same metal engraving and security features in offset.

The front side exhibits the following variations in its design; new security features that include the reproduction of the letter written by Rosas to Facundo Quiroga and the federal star stylized in damasque; complimentary front-back matching of the "federal star"; redistribution of the value in letters and numbers of the metal engraving in light green ink; partial reproduction of a portrait of Manuelita Rosas which is a work of the painter Prilidiano Pueyrredon; the number "20" in the upper left-hand corner in optically variable ink that is shiny and according to the angle of observation it can be seen either as blue or green; concealed image that is contained within the number 20; vertical numeration red in the left margin and with changing size digitals in black on the right (both present red and yellow florescence respectively to ultraviolet light); identification for blind people made up of three squares in relief.

The reverse has the following modifications: new security measures made up of hexagons and guilloches; recreation of a lithograph that represents the combat of the Vuelta de Obligado; incorporation of biographical data and military trophies included in the eight (8)reales coin of 1840; microlettering in the body of the "20" numbers.

Source: El Telegrafo, Uno 5, Numero 18, Marzo 2000, Centro Numismatico Buenos Aires

Courtesy: Carlos A. Graziadio

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