Argentine austral

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The austral was the currency of Argentina between June 15, 1985 and December 31, 1991. It was subdivided into 100 centavos. The symbol (₳) was an uppercase A with an extra horizontal line. This symbol appeared on all coins issued in this currency (including centavos), to distinguish them from earlier currencies. The ISO 4217 code is ARA.

The austral replaced the peso argentino at a rate of one to one thousand. It was itself replaced by the peso at a rate of ten thousand to one.

1 Coins
- 1.1 Centavos
- 1.2 Australes
2 Banknotes
3 Sources

[edit] Coins

The coins had the following values: ½, 1, 5, 10 and 50 centavos, 1, 5, 10, 100, 500 and 1000 australes.

[edit] Centavos

Value	Obverse	Emission start date	Withdrawn	Composition	Diameter
½	Hornero	23 Sep 1985	31 Dec 1991	Brass	19 mm
1	Rhea	23 Sep 1985	31 Dec 1991	Brass	20 mm
5	Puma	23 Sep 1985	31 Dec 1991	Brass	23 mm
10	Coat of arms	14 Oct 1985	31 Dec 1991	Brass	21 mm
50	Liberty	14 Oct 1985	31 Dec 1991	Brass	23 mm

[edit] Australes

Value	Obverse	Emission start date	Withdrawn	Composition	Diameter
1	Buenos Aires Cabildo	27 Mar 1989	31 Dec 1991	Aluminium	20 mm
5	House of Tucumán	22 May 1989	31 Dec 1991	Aluminium	22 mm
10	Casa del Acuerdo	26 Jun 1989	31 Dec 1991	Aluminium	22 mm
100	Coat of arms	28 Nov 1990	31 Oct 1993	Aluminium	21 mm
500	Coat of arms	1 Nov 1990	31 Oct 1993	Aluminium	23 mm
1,000	Coat of arms	28 Nov 1990	31 Oct 1993	Aluminium	24 mm

[edit] Banknotes

The austral banknotes had the following values:

Value	Comments	Portrait	Emission start date	Withdrawn
1		Bernardino Rivadavia	31 Oct 1985	31 Oct 1991
5		Justo José de Urquiza	28 Feb 1986	31 Oct 1991
10		Santiago Derqui	30 Dec 1985	31 Oct 1991
50		Bartolomé Mitre	23 Jun 1986	31 Dec 1991
100		Domingo F. Sarmiento	25 Nov 1985	1 Jun 1992
500		Nicolás Avellaneda	2 May 1988	1 Jun 1992
1,000		Julio A. Roca	30 Sep 1988	1 Jun 1992
5,000		Juárez Celman	26 May 1989	1 Oct 1992
10,000	Provisional	José de San Martín	31 Jul 1989	31 Aug 1991
10,000	Definitive	Carlos Pellegrini	25 Aug 1989	1 Oct 1992
50,000	Provisional	José de San Martín	2 Jun 1989	31 Aug 1991
50,000	Definitive	Luis Sáenz Peña	8 Nov 1989	2 Jan 1993
100,000		José E. Uriburu	21 May 1990	2 Jan 1993
500,000	Provisional	José de San Martín	2 Jul 1990	31 Oct 1991
500,000	Definitive	Manuel Quintana	1 Nov 1990	2 Jan 1993

All banknotes except the provisionals, show on the back the Liberty with torch and shield.

The provisional banknotes were done with the old peso ley design where the word PESOS was erased. The current value was stamped on the back . For example: A 10 MIL (meaning 10,000 australes). Also the old picture on the back was replaced with the banknote denomination in letters without spaces in several rows. For example: DIEZMILAUSTRALES.