Eduardo Colantonio:
Billetes Argentinos 1884 - 2024

2nd edition Buenos Aires 2024.

249 pages, format 18 x 25.5 cm, hardcover, full color with numerous illustrations.

In Spanish.

ISBN 978-631-00-4255-8

Costs approx. EUR 45, to order from the author : educolantonio@gmail.com

International shipping is possible.

Eduardo Colantonio has been considered a proven expert on Argentine paper money for many years. His catalogue on Argentine paper money, first published in 2016, which has quickly become a standard work for this collecting area, has now been republished in a second updated and expanded edition.

The field of collecting Argentine banknotes has a lot to offer both the collector with a small budget and the expert. Since 1970, the country has sunk no fewer than five currencies into the maelstrom of inflation - the Peso Ley, Peso Argentino, Australes, Peso Convertibles and the Peso. What remains is a large number of banknotes, which can usually be purchased in shops for a few euros in mint condition. Today it is hard to believe that Argentina was once one of the wealthiest nations in the world due to its agricultural exports. The banknotes of the issuing banks with a state guarantee date from this period, as do the notes issued from 1895 by the Conversion Fund (Caja de Conversión), many of which are now sought-after rarities.

Colantonio's catalogue begins with the state's small change issues of 1884, then deals with the various issues of the issuing banks and the issues of the Conversion Fund, before moving on to the notes issued by the National Bank from 1935 onwards. The author uses a system of his own, consecutive catalogue numbers. The catalogue ends with the 10,000 pesos banknote from the "National Heroes" series, printed in China and issued from May 7, 2024, which shows the portraits of Maria Remedios del Valle and Manuel Belgrano on the front, and soldiers on horseback swearing allegiance to the Argentine flag in 1812 on the back - heroic motifs are widespread on Argentine banknotes. The individual sections are preceded by short introductions in which the basic data of the issue are presented, as well as watermarks and signatures. This makes it easier to compare and assign variants in your own collection.

All banknotes are shown in color with the front and back shown at about 50% of their original size and are generally graded in two grades - for banknotes issued from 1970 onwards in XF and UNC, for the older notes in VF and XF or Fine and VF...

The catalogue contains a lot of information that is missing from the SCWPM catalogue or the banknotebook and that is useful for interested collectors, such as watermark or signature variants for individual issues, or the list of control number ranges, which can be assigned to each year of printing and which allow conclusions to be drawn about the issue numbers, which are often quite low, especially for older notes with higher denominations...

To read the complete article, see:
Neuer Katalog: Billetes Argentinos (Argentinisches Papiergeld)(https://www.geldscheine-online.com/post/neuer-katalog-billetes-argentinos-argentinisches-papiergeld)