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1/2 Real Boliviano
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Córdoba |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE 6. El Banco Provincial de Córdoba pagará a la vista UN PESO BOLIVIANO al portador MEDIO REAL BOLIVIANO Córdoba, Marzo 27 de 1873 1/2 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-green guilloche work and divided into two large circular vignette panels, each filled with intricate lathe-work patterns enclosing allegorical figures. A bold central numeral "1/2" is superimposed over the guilloche underprint. A repeated letterpress border legend reading "MEDIO" runs along all four margins of the note. |
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The Banco Provincial de Córdoba was one of several Argentine provincial banks operating under loose federal oversight in the early 1870s, each issuing its own paper currency with minimal coordination from Buenos Aires. The fractional denominations — and this ½ Real Boliviano is among the smallest — were printed specifically to address the chronic shortage of small change that plagued interior commerce, where silver coinage rarely circulated in sufficient quantity.
The "Real Boliviano" unit itself is a telling detail: Bolivian silver reales still served as an informal accounting standard in the Cuyo and northwestern provinces long after Argentine monetary unification was theoretically underway.