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1/2 Real Boliviano
| Issuer | Banco Entre-Riano |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Value | ½ Real Boliviano |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note with letterpress text throughout. The denomination MEDIO REAL appears in bold type at both the top and bottom borders, framed by a simple geometric guilloche border. The central text block states the value in Spanish, identifies the issuing bank as El Banco Entre-Riano, and includes a promise to pay the bearer on demand; the place and date of issue, CONCEPCION DEL URUGUAY, MAYO 15 DE 1866, is printed along the lower margin. A small oval vignette is present at the left, and a manuscript signature of a bank official appears in the centre-right area. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this note is not visible in the provided image. |
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The Banco Entre-Riano was a provincial bank operating out of Concepción del Uruguay in the Argentine province of Entre Ríos — a region that maintained considerable economic independence from Buenos Aires during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Provincial banks of this period issued their own notes freely, often with little backing, and Entre Ríos was no exception. The denomination itself, expressed in reales bolivianos, reflects the transitional monetary vocabulary still common in the Río de la Plata region before the peso system consolidated.
Survival rate for small-denomination provincial Argentine notes of the 1860s is extremely low. Fractional notes circulated hard and were discarded without sentiment.