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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2562759, member: 12789&quot;]Horses being the second most popular form of transport in the 19th century, after walking of course - they were oft featured on banknotes like this one from Argentina:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh578/scottishmoney/argentinas1783_zps3acyzlv3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Whilst the other vignettes of the lady and the gentleman on the note are stock images also used on many other N. American and S. American notes printed by ABNCo, the center vignette is unique to this note - a slaughterhouse:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh578/scottishmoney/argentinas1783dtl2_zpsfqntgju2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Dogs, horses and gauchos with dead bovines and vultures make for a wee bit of a macabre setting for a banknote.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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