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Argentina banknotes
Argentina paper money catalog and Argentinean currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Spanish currency, till 1816
  • Escudo = 2 Pesos = 16 Reales (Soles) = 544 Maravedis, 1816-75
  • Argentine Peso = (0.20 Argentino) = 100 Centavos, 1851-1970
  • Argentine Peso = (100 old Peso) = 100 Centavos, 1970-1983
  • Peso Argentino = (10.000 old Peso) = 100 Centavos, 1983-1985
  • Austral = (1.000 Peso Argentino) = 100 Centavos, 1985-1992
  • Argentine Peso Convertible = (10.000 Austral) = 100 Centavos, 1992-2002
  • Argentine Peso = (Peso Convertible) = 100 Centavos, from 2002

• Argentine currency was used:
  • Paraguay, till 1943

• To purchase Argentinean banknotes, please check our inventory :
  World banknotes countries A-Z

Pick #	Date
		Republic
1-4	1884	5, 10, 20, 20, 50 centavos; printer Lange
5-8	1884	5, 10, 20, 50 centavos; printer ABNC
209-212A	1891	5, 10, 20, 50, 50 centavos
213-16	1892	5, 10, 20, 50 centavos
218-27	1895	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1.000 pesos
228-30	1895	10, 20, 50 centavos
231-33	(1899)	50 centavos, 1, 100 pesos
234-41	(1900)	50 centavos, 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 pesos
236A-41A	(1903)	5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 pesos
235B-39B	(1906)	1, 5, 10, 50, 100 pesos
242-49	(1908)	50, 50 centavos, 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 pesos
249A-B	ND	1, 5 pesos; not issued, proof
250-52	(1935)	50 centavos, 1, 5 pesos
253-55	1935	10, 50, 100 pesos
256-58	1947	50 centavos, 1, 5 pesos
259	1947	50 centavos
260	1947	1 peso; commemorative issue "Declaration of Economic Independence 1816-1947"
261-64	(1951)	50 centavos, 1, 1, 5 pesos
265-69	1935(1942)	10, 50, 100, 100, 500, 500, 1.000 pesos
270-74	(1954)	10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 pesos
275-81	1935(1942)	50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000 pesos
282-86	(1969)	1, 5, 10, 50, 100 pesos; overprint
287-92	(1970)	1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 pesos; "Ley 18.188"
293-99	(1973)	1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 pesos; "Decreto-Ley 18.188/69"
300-10	(1976-83)	10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 50.000, 100.000, 500.000, 1.000.000 pesos; no Ley
311-19	(1983-85)	1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000 pesos argentinos
320-22	(1985)	1, 5, 10 australes; overprint
323-30	(1985-91)	1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000 australes
331-33	(1989)	10.000, 50.000, 500.0000 australes; overprint
334-38	(1989)	10.000, 50.000, 100.000, 100.00, 500.000 australes
339-45	(1992)	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 pesos
346-51	(1997)	2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 pesos
352-57	(2002)	2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 pesos
358	2012	100 pesos; commemorative "60th Anniversary of Eva Peron's Death"
?358A?	2015	50 pesos; commemorative "Malvinas Islas" (Falkland)
359-	2015-	5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1.000, 5.000 pesos