...Argentina - 2000 Pesos ND2023-2024 Commemorative Note

Republica Argentina

(Argentina Republic)

Banco Central de la Republica Argentina

(Central Bank of the Argentina Republic)

Currency - Peso (ARS)

 

Below are the three commemorative notes of 2000 pesos released in 2023 and 2024. These notes were issued to celebrate the country's development of Science and Medicine. All notes are undated but were introduced on 22.05.2023 (Series A) and 08.11.2023 (Series E) and in 2024 (P suffix). Whilst the theme for these two notes are the same, the designs are not quite identical.

Below are the most noticeable differences between the first two notes, and based on the Series E note, the following features/securities are added/altered to the design :-

Front

1) The denomination value of 2000 is printed on the top left corner;

2) The windowed security thread is added;

3) The denomination value of 2000 in vertical is added between the windowed security thread and the portrait of Dr. Ramon Carrillo;

4) To the far top right corner, the value of 2000 is added to the green shield.

5) The initials of RC and CG are added to the watermarks

 

Back

1) The two signatures have shifted from the bottom right to the top right

2) Part of the Instituto Dr. Carlos Malbran building is printed in red, instead of dark grey.

Two Thousand Pesos

Signatures

President H.C. Deputies - Cecilia Moreau

President B.C.R.A. - Miguel Angel Pesce

Watermarks - Dr. Ramon Carrillo and Dr. Cecilia Grierson

Imprinter - S.E. Casa de Moneda, Buenos Aires

Dimensions - 156.5mm x 66mm 

 

Front - Dr. Ramon Carrillo (b.1906-1956) was Argentina's first Secretary of Public Health from 1949 to 1954. He was a neurosurgeon, neurologist, physician and public health advocate

 

Dr. Cecilia Grierson (b.1859-1934) was the first woman to become a physician in Argentina in 1890. She was active in public health issues and gynecology and was involved in women rights.

Back - Instituto Dr. Carlos Malbran, mainly dealing in medical investigative specialties.  

Two Thousand Pesos

Signatures

President H.C. Deputies - Cecilia Moreau

President B.C.R.A. - Miguel Angel Pesce

Watermarks - Dr. Ramon Carrillo and Dr. Cecilia Grierson and electrotype RC, CG

Dimensions - 156mm x 65.5mm

Front - Dr. Ramon Carrillo was born into an Afro-Argentine family, in the city of Santiago del Estero in the northern part of Argentina. He was Argentina's first health Minister and was forced into exile in Brazil following a coup d'etat in 1955. He died on 20.12.1956 at the very young age of 50.

Dr. Cecilia Grierson's ancestry is Scottish. Her paternal grandfather was among the Scottish colonists who first arrived in Argentina in 1825. During her lifetime and as a woman, she faced many challenges and oppositions when it came to enrollment into medical school. Because of discrimination, women were not allowed to study medicine in four major universities in the country. In order for her to get into medical school, she had to provide written justifications for the motivation in pursuing her dream. She graduated in 1889 and became the first woman in Argentina to earn a Medical degree. On 22.11.2016, Google celebrated her 157th birthday with a Google Doodle.

Back - Instituto Dr. Carlos Malbran or Malbran Institute, mainly dealing in medical investigative specialties, and is located in Barracas, a district in the capital city of Buenos Aires. Nobel Prize laureates Cesar Milstein and Bernardo Houssay once worked in this institution.

 

 

Two Thousand Pesos

Signatures

President H.C. Deputies - Martin Menem (since 2023)

President B.C.R.A. - Santiago Bausili (since 2023)

Watermarks - Dr. Ramon Carrillo and Dr. Cecilia Grierson and electrotype RC, CG

Dimensions - 155.5mm x 65.5mm

Front - Dr. Ramon Carrillo (b.1906-1956)

Dr. Cecilia Grierson (b.1859-1934).

 

Back - Instituto Dr. Carlos Malbran or Malbran Institute.

 

Argentina - One Peso 1952 Commemorative

One Peso, ND1952 P260b. This commemorative note was issued to commemorate the country's Declaration of Economic Independence.

One Peso

ND1952, P260b

Reverse

Argentina - 100 Pesos K Series ND2014

One Hundred Pesos

ND2014 P358c

Reverse

This is the 3 reprint issued in 2014. Nothing changed for the design for this note except that it has new signatures.

Argentina - 50 Pesos 2014 Islas Malvinas Invasion Commemorative

Fifty Pesos

ND2015

Revere

Argentina 2014 50 Pesos invasion of Guerra de las Malvinas Commemorative. The Argentinians called it Islas Malvinas and others called it Falkland Islands. For this post, I will refer the islands here with both names. This is a 50 Pesos note issued to commemorate the 32nd Anniversary of the invasion of the Islas Malvinas in 1982 by the Argentina Military Junta government let by Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli (b. 1926-2003). Here are some interest facts of this conflict between Argentina and Great Britain.

* 02.04.1982 - Argentinian forces launched an invasion of Islas Malvinas, including South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, following a long standing territorial claim;
* 05.04.1982 - The then British PM Margaret Thatcher (b.1925-2013) dispatched both naval and air task forces to the south Atlantic in preparation to recapture the islands back from Argentina;
* 25.04.1982 - The British forces recaptured South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands;
* 21.05.1982 - About 3,000 British troops landed on San Carlos in East Falkland;
* 14.06.1982 - The Argentinian troops surrendered and the British troops recaptured Falkland Islands.

The Argentinians managed to hang onto the islands for only 74 days before surrendering. A total of 908 lives were lost in this conflict, comprises of 255 British, 650 Argentinians and three Falkland Islanders. Since then the Islands sovereignty remain unresolved. In March 2013, a referendum was held in Falkland Islands to decide their future. The results was that 1,517 voted to stay with Great Britain with three voted against this. The Argentinian government has not given up on Islas Malvinas claim and is still hoping that one day it will return back to them. Given the result of the referendum, it is most likely that this matter will remain unresolved for a long, long time to come. The announcement of this new note was launched on 2.4.2014 by the Argentinian President Cristina Fernandes de Kirchner at her Presidential office at La Casa Rosada (the Pink House) in Buenos Aires. This note was released in early March 2015

The design of the note depicts gaucho Antonio Rivero (Entre Rios 1808-Buenos Aires 1845) riding on a horse waving the Argentinian flag in his right hand. The note is also printed with the following texts - en union y libertad. Primer defensor de la soberania nacional en las Islas Malvinas. Recupero la soberania patria en el ano 1833. Lucho por los derechos sociales de los trabajadores en las Islas. (at union and freedom. defender of national sovereignty on the Falkland Islands. Country regained sovereignty in the year 1833. I fight for social rights of workers on the islands). On the front, it has the islands of "Islas Malvinas", South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands printed over what seems to be the southern tip of Argentina and Chile. The map of the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is printed in the wrong way round with the top end pointing north instead of north-west. I am not sure why they did that? Is this on purpose or just trying to fit the map onto the note or I may have mistaken this myself.

Argentina - 100 Pesos Eva Peron Series B (2013)

One Hundred Pesos

ND2013, P358B

Argentina 100 Pesos Eva Peron B Series. This is the reprint of the 2012 Eva Duarte de Peron note which was released on 21.09.2012 commemorating the 60th anniversary of the death of Eva Peron. This B series print has some minor changes in design to the note, both front and back. The most noticeable on the front is that the little flower design on the left has shifted away from the edge and some minor changes on the back too, including the value "100" on the left edge shifted from the middle to the top left hand corner of the note. This note was released on 2.7.2013.

Reverse

Argentina - 100 Pesos 2012 Eva Peron Commemorative

60th Anniversary of the Death of Eva Duarte de Peron

One Hundred Pesos, released 21.9.2012

ND2012, P358

Reverse