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1 1/2 Real Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco del Rosario de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet-grey tones on plain paper, the obverse is framed by a fine guilloche border with rosette corner medallions each bearing the fraction '1½'. A central vignette of a standing bull in a landscape occupies the mid-register, flanked to the left by a manuscript serial number box and to the right by a bold denomination panel reading '1½ Rs.'. The bank title 'EL BANCO DEL ROSARIO' appears in large ornate letterpress at both head and foot of the note, with the payment promise 'Pagara a la vista UN REAL Y MEDIO al portador plata boliviana en efectivo' running across the central register. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this note is not documented; no description can be confirmed from available sources. |
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The Banco del Rosario was one of several provincial banks chartered in Argentina during the 1860s under legislation that allowed individual provinces to establish note-issuing institutions before any national banking law existed. The denomination itself — 1½ Real Plata Boliviana — reflects how thoroughly Bolivian silver coinage had penetrated the River Plate economy by mid-century, functioning as everyday transactional currency across the interior provinces long after Argentine federal coinage was nominally in circulation.
PS prefix in the Pick numbering places this firmly in the South American private and provincial bank category. Very few Banco del Rosario notes of any denomination are documented in institutional collections.