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The Argentine flag and its creator

Thematic selection of pieces

In the Central Bank Museum you can find pieces related to our patriotic symbols and influential personalities for the country. Among them, here we share those that commemorate the national flag and its creator, Manuel Belgrano.

Manuel Belgrano was born in Buenos Aires on June 3, 1770. He was an economist, journalist, politician, lawyer and soldier from the River Plate. He created the Argentine flag on February 27, 1812, in Rosario, during the deed for the independence of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata.

In the country we commemorate the creation of this patriotic symbol on June 20, a national holiday and holiday also dedicated to its creator, who died on that day in 1820.*

In the following rooms of our museum you will find:

Room 4 | Argentine money today

In this room you can see pieces of the current issue line, which have images of the flag or its creator: the $10 bill and the $50 bill.

Reverse $10 convertibles. The main motifs are printed in intaglio and the backgrounds in offset. The National Monument to the Flag can be appreciated, the biographical synthesis of the hero in mini-letters, a drum and a guard with the typical fabric of northern Argentina.)

Obverse $10 | 2016. The main motifs are printed in intaglio and the backgrounds in offset. The main imprint reproduces the portrait of General Manuel Belgrano, and as a security background, a plot with the representation of the front of the Monument to the Flag.

Reverse $10 | 2016. s main motifs are printed in intaglio and the backgrounds in offset. The main image that evokes the creation of the flag can be seen, with the first hoisting of the national flag, as well as the image of Juana Azurduy.

Reverse $50. The main motifs are printed in intaglio and the backgrounds in Offset. The Gaucho Antonio Rivero with the Argentine Flag is reproduced as the main figure.

Room 3 | Conservative Republic and the Twentieth Century

In this room you can see five pieces:

Obverse $10 Convertibles. The main motifs are printed in intaglio and the backgrounds in offset. In the main imprint is the portrait of the hero and in the background the replica of a report by General Belgrano to the Government of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata.

10,000 Argentine Pesos (1985) banknote, printed in purplish-blue ink, measures 75 x 155 millimeters

5 Peso Bill Law 18.188 (1971), printed in blue ink, measures 75 x 155 millimeters.

10 Peso Bill Law 18.188 (1970), printed in blue ink, measures 75 x 155 millimeters.

500 banknote issued by the National Guaranteed Banks, restamped in 1891 by the Currency Board, pink brown and gold, 100 x 200 millimeters.

Room 2 | Independence and national organization

In this room you will find a piece:

200 peso fuerte banknote (1869)

*source: Belgraniano National Institute. http://manuelbelgrano.gov.ar/