President Alberto Fernandez will lead this Monday presentation of one new series of banknotes through which the current ones, with illustrations of animals, will be replaced by the new ones, which will have heroes that are part of Argentine history. It will be in a event scheduled for 5:00 p.m. in the Bicentennial Hall, at the Government House, official sources specified.
“What we are doing is putting our heroes and heroines back on the bills, the men and women who made history in Argentina. With this we recover social identity”, President Fernandez said last Friday in an interview with Radio with you.
“We as a country have a historical identity and we have to put our most valuable men and women in our hands, in the money that we handle every day”, added the head of state.
Fernández ruled out the issuance of new banknote denominations –the $1000 was introduced at the end of 2017– and considered a “simplified reading” to link the introduction of a new design with the need to issue papers with higher denominations.
The President, without specifying the names of the heroes who will make up the new family of banknotes, said that in the initiative has been working for “two years”.
Last year, during the act for the 171st anniversary of the death of Liberator General José de San Martín, the head of state said that “San Martín will soon be on our bills” and that “they are going to accompany him Manuel Belgrano, Juana Azurduy, and men and women who gave everything so that Argentina lives”.
The current banknote model, called Animals, dates back to mid-2016, during the administration of President Mauricio Macri, when the Central Bank (BCRA), in charge of Federico Sturzenegger, issued bills with animals of the native fauna, including the guanaco, the condor, the taruca and the southern right whale in the denominations of $20, $50, $100 and $200; and the yaguareté and the hornero, in those of $500 and $1000.