Argentina Convertible Pesos
Posted: July, 2004
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C ontinuing with the cataloging of the
banknotes of the present day line "Pesos Convertibles", supplied
until 1995 through numbers 92 and 98 of these Notebooks its
updating corresponds through the years 1996 and 1997, whose dates as
always, have been delivered by the sector of Registrations of the
Issuing treasury, which is dependent on the Issuing Sub-Agency of
the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic, through the kindness of
Mr. Aviles and Clerici and Mrs. Viglione.
As it has become clear from the start, from
this line and attending the motion in this regard, the given
numerations are from the furnished banknotes, or rather, those that
were warehoused and registered in a place called "Great Treasury",
from where the records of their issue were derived, resulting in
data more in agreement with reality, remembering that before it was
taken into receipt by the B.C.R.A. in the Mint as printed paper due
to the records of the corresponding deliveries.
At this time the information
supplied previously with that of the present time is unified in a
single listing from the beginning of the line, all for a better
exposition of opinion, without changing for now the method of
individualization.
It should be made clear that there exists a
modification of the two Pesos banknotes through the unfolding in F
030, due to a mistaken interpretation of the registry, a fact that
has arisen now upon the issuance of the B.C.R.A. of a new general
list which will be definitive.
This monetary line is in effect from January
1, 1992 (Decree 2128), but in the last days of 1991, the B.C.R.A.
distributed to Regional Banks and Treasuries the lots whose values,
series, numerations and signatures are the
following:
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$1,- Series A, 00.000.001/03.360.000
Murolo-Fernandez
$5,- Series A, 00.000.001/01.440.000
Muroro-Fernandez
$10,- Series A, 00.000.001/03.640.000
Muroro-Fernandez |
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Although in their
registries they show as supplied in 1991, all that was for the
purpose of having them prepared for their issuance on the indicated
date; therefore, it remains to the judgement of each one to include them or not in their
collections, but in this cataloging, through legal and practical
questions, it is understood that the correct information is that
they were issued in 1992.
The B.C.R.A. decided to introduce some
modifications in the banknotes of this monetary line for innovative
purposes; providing them with better security measures but without
altering the principal intentions; maintaining the size and the
predominant colors, presenting paper weighing 90g/m2 in place of
83g/m2; three-colored, invisible security fibers; watermarks on all
three denominations, security threads from $10 to $100; and the
redesigning of security measures, numeration, and the portraits of
San Martin and Manuel Belgrano.
The $2 Peso
denomination has been in circulation since November, 1997, and
during 1998 the remaining denominations will be issued, beginning
with the $10 in January. Although at this moment those new
bills are added to the list following the previous ones, it stands
to reason that we are talking about a single recent case in its
beginning since for the future and when the rest of the
denominations appear, it is understood that they should be grouped
separately, being that they will be the object of another collection
by its type.
The following oral
cataloging of this monetary line is offered:
(*)"Recovery" run
(**)Last banknotes issued in this value
since they were replaced by coins, and , as a consequence, taken out
of circulation.
100 Pesos
Beginning with No. 23.200.001/A printing differences
on the obverse side are presented. These refer to the small
rose that the concealed image contains and the vestment of the
effigy of the president Julio A. Roco. All of this obeys
changes introduced by the Mint to improve the quality of printing by
Communication "B"5115 of the B.C.R.A.
Likewise by means of Communication "C"7160,
the B.C.R.A. made it known that it has detected the circulation of
$100 banknotes, legitimate ones, that present a printing
mistake. It concerns a run of specimens that, due to a
mechanical difference in one of the printing sequences, lacks the
hidden number "100" to the right of the portrait that reacts with
marked yellow fluorescence under ultraviolet light.
Source: Cuadernos de Numismatica y Ciencias Historicas,
Tomo XXIV, No. 106, December 1997.
Courtesy: Carlos A.
Graziadio
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