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1 1/2 Pesos = 12 Reales Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Santa Fé, Rosario |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Value | 1½ Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette depicts a pastoral scene with cattle and a horse in a landscape setting, printed in brown and pink tones on a fine guilloche underprint. The bank title EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ arches across the top in bold letterpress, with the denomination 1½ repeated at the upper corners and DOCE REALES PLATA BOLIVIANA in large text below the central vignette. A female allegorical figure appears in the lower left corner, with manuscript date, series, serial number, and two signature lines below the central text. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ ROSARIO SERIE A PAGARA A LA VISTA DOCE REALES PLATA BOLIVIANA o su equivalente en las monedas determinadas por la ley Nacional 1½ Enero 1° 1875 El Inspector El Directorio DOCE REALES PLATA BOLIVIANA |
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Banco Provincial de Santa Fé operated out of Rosario rather than the provincial capital, reflecting that city's growing commercial dominance as a grain and cattle export hub in the 1870s. The fractional denomination — 1½ Pesos expressed as 12 Reales Plata Boliviana — is a direct artifact of the monetary chaos that plagued the Río de la Plata region for decades, where Bolivian silver reales, Argentine pesos, and provincial currencies circulated simultaneously with no fixed equivalence enforced at the national level.
Argentina's 1875 banking crisis hit several provincial institutions hard, and notes from this period often had severely shortened circulation windows before the issuing banks suspended payments or were absorbed.