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Buenos Aires peso moneda corriente: research record

Evidence coverage: 1826–1883. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Currency continuity

Buenos Aires peso moneda corriente

CUR-V25-BUENOS-AIRES-PESO-CORRIENTE · Research draft

A documented account-unit or currency-system transition supports this predecessor identity; not admitted from a specimen or inherited label alone.

One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1826–1883; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Spanish real / peso de a ochoaccount unit branching · qualified · 1822–1826
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Children / successors

Argentine peso — 1881–1985 continuitymultiple currency unification · 1881–1883
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Siblings

Unit and issue records 1 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Buenos Aires peso moneda corriente · C1276

Latest research

Earlier unit continuity

Buenos Aires had a locally scoped peso moneda corriente distinct from strong silver reckoning, used in contracts and public instruments. Admission relies on distinct accounting and contractual discharge, not simply paper material or a new issuer. Early creation date remains open.

Sources and qualifications →
Modern account-unit review

1881law mandatesnationalunit contracts andconversionofexistingobligations; localbank emissions mustrenew inmoneda nacional withintwoyears. BuenosAirespeso isone localinput. Typedunification supported;no inventeduniversal25:1ratio, noexclusiveBAparent.

Sources and qualifications →

Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

1826qualified

Buenos Aires had a locally scoped peso moneda corriente distinct from strong silver reckoning, used in contracts and public instruments. Admission relies on distinct accounting and contractual discharge, not simply paper material or a new issuer. Early creation date remains open.

C1276
Evidence & research notes 4 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Inference C1247

The Buenos Aires local peso branch developed from inherited Spanish-American peso reckoning as local bank money became the contractual currency. Compressed local sequence; not a claim that every Argentine province adopted this unit.

Julio Djenderedjian and Juan Luis Martirén, América Latina en la Historia Económica32(1),2025; DOI10.18232/20073496.1488 · La moneda circulante en el Río de la Plata y el surgimiento de un mercado financiero,1813–1850: de horizonte homogéneo a volatilidad estructural Citation S595 · Open source ↗

El contexto: cobre, plata y papel; discussion of 1826 inconvertibility; note 33 on discharge of contracts, citing Agote 1881 pp. c–cii

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Inference C1248

Buenos Aires peso moneda corriente was one local input to the national-currency unification and compulsory banknote renewal ordered in 1881. Qualified identification of one input; implementation date and exact conversion schedule require the implementing acts. No claim of exclusive parentage.

Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R-V25-003. Typedunification supported;no inventeduniversal25:1ratio, noexclusiveBAparent. Replacement evidence: C1600.

Argentine Congress, sanctioned 3 November 1881 · Ley 1130 — Ley de Monedas Citation S629 · Open source ↗

Articles 5, 7–9, 11–15; El contexto: cobre, plata y papel; discussion of 1826 inconvertibility; note 33 on discharge of contracts, citing Agote 1881 pp. c–cii

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full original statutory transcription inspected.

Julio Djenderedjian and Juan Luis Martirén, América Latina en la Historia Económica32(1),2025; DOI10.18232/20073496.1488 · La moneda circulante en el Río de la Plata y el surgimiento de un mercado financiero,1813–1850: de horizonte homogéneo a volatilidad estructural Citation S595 · Open source ↗

Articles 5, 7–9, 11–15; El contexto: cobre, plata y papel; discussion of 1826 inconvertibility; note 33 on discharge of contracts, citing Agote 1881 pp. c–cii

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Inference C1276

Buenos Aires had a locally scoped peso moneda corriente distinct from strong silver reckoning, used in contracts and public instruments. Admission relies on distinct accounting and contractual discharge, not simply paper material or a new issuer. Early creation date remains open.

Julio Djenderedjian and Juan Luis Martirén, América Latina en la Historia Económica32(1),2025; DOI10.18232/20073496.1488 · La moneda circulante en el Río de la Plata y el surgimiento de un mercado financiero,1813–1850: de horizonte homogéneo a volatilidad estructural Citation S595 · Open source ↗

El contexto: cobre, plata y papel; discussion of 1826 inconvertibility; note 33 on discharge of contracts, citing Agote 1881 pp. c–cii

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1600

1881law mandatesnationalunit contracts andconversionofexistingobligations; localbank emissions mustrenew inmoneda nacional withintwoyears. BuenosAirespeso isone localinput.

Argentine Congress, sanctioned 3 November 1881 · Ley 1130 — Ley de Monedas Citation S629 · Open source ↗

Articles1,5,7–8,11,13–15

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full original statutory transcription inspected.

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