Note and Coin News

• Banco Central República Argentina has confirmed that new 10,000 and 20,000 peso (ARS) notes will enter into circulation in June.

They will be the highest denominations to date and come after years of demand from business and banks. Argentina’s current highest denomination is the ARS 2,000, issued in 2023, with the most commonly used note being the ARS 1,000.

The designs of the new notes continue the move away from the Native Fauna series, launched in 2016, to a revision of older designs from the Heroines and Heroes of the Homeland series in order to save costs and shorten production deadlines.

The ARS 10,000 peso note will bear the images of war heroes Manuel Belgrano and María Remedios del Valle, a renowned heroine from the War of Independence.

The portrait on the ARS 20,000 will be Juan Bautista Alberdi, architect of the 1853 Constitution.

The new notes will be printed on cotton paper with watermarks and security threads.