This will be the new 200-peso bill, pictured by Martín Miguel de Güemes and Juana Azurduy.
Alberto Fernández this afternoon led the presentation of new banknote designs to mark the return of heroes on banknotes rather than animal.
The new banknotes were designed by technicians from the Central Bank in conjunction with Casa de la Moneda. Considered to be there gender equality in the choice of figures, composition and color.
The new family consists of four denominations which include the representation of three females and three males who, according to the BCRA, “played a decisive role in building our nation, transcendent figures who broke the mold of their time and fought for freedom, development, integration and expansion of rights.”
As a unique and novel element, two of the denominations pay homage to two personalities on the same ticket.
The family consists of the following banknotes:
$ 100: Maria Eva Duarte de Peron
$ 200: Martin Miguel de Güemes and Juana Azurduy
$ 500: Maria Remedios del Valle and Manuel Belgrano
$ 1000: Jose de San Martin
BCRA also reported that another of this family’s novelties was the return of banknotes to their reading in horizontal format on both sides.
Meanwhile, the new banknotes retain the color palette for each denomination and maintain the size of the current banknotes.. They will live together in the current circulating.
In addition, BCRA and Casa de la Moneda staff designed allegories representing the lives and struggles of the figures who would be the main characters of the new banknotes.
New banknotes with figures of heroes
This will be the new 100-peso bill, with a photo by Eva Perón.
$ 100. Maria Eva Duarte de Peron She was the proponent of Law 13,010 on women’s voting in 1947 and a figure of enormous importance in the fight for the expansion of social and labor rights in our country and an international benchmark. She founded the Women’s Peronist Party and through the Eva Perón Foundation channeled social aid until her premature death in 1952. She was an advocate of social and labor rights, an advocate of measures in favor of equality. -equality of women and greater inclusion. most neglected sector.
This will be the new 200-peso bill, pictured by Martín Miguel de Güemes and Juana Azurduy.
$ 200. Martin Miguel de Guemes He intervened in the Reconquest and Defense of Buenos Aires during the English Invasions of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and later played a decisive role in the War of Independence. He was the governor of Salta and the great protagonist of the Gaucha War, the fierce resistance that guarded the northern territories of the country. His forces, hell, composed of gauchos and countrymen on horseback, were able to prevent many royalist advances. Juana Azurduy His performance in the wars against the royalists was recognized by the awards of Bolivia and Argentina. She took up arms in a society that banned the entry of women into the militia, organized and commanded battalions and managed to mobilize thousands of indigenous and mestizos in favor of the goal of freedom. He reached the rank of lieutenant colonel and joined the troops of Martín Miguel de Güemes. In 2009, the Argentine government promoted his post-mortem with the rank of general.
This will be the new 500-peso bill, with photos of Manuel Belgrano and María Remedios del Valle.
$ 500. Mary Remedies of the Valley She was a heroine of the War of Independence. As a woman and Afro-descendant, she had to face all the prejudices and limitations of time. He became an auxiliary in the English Invasions and after the May Revolution he fought in the Army of the North. For his bravery, Belgrano appointed him with the rank of captain. He was shot, captured by the royalists and beaten in public. After years of neglect and hardship, his work was recognized and he reached the rank of sergeant. Manuel Belgranothe creator of the flag of Argentina, one of the patriots who promoted the May Revolution and one of the greatest heroes of the War of Independence.
This will be the new thousand-peso bill, with the image of José de San Martín.
$ 1000. Jose de San MartinSi, father of the country, the Liberator, led the emancipatory struggles of Argentina, Chile and Peru and was one of the most emblematic and transcendent figures of the Spanish-American wars of independence. He created the Horse Grenadier Regiment, led the Army of the North and became governor of Cuyo. He starred in the victory of crossing the Andes mountains with an army determined to liberate Chile and Peru.
Source: Clarin
