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1/2 Real Moneda Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Printer | Litografía E. Pieviti, Aduana, Rosario |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress and lithographic note on plain paper. The upper portion carries the bank title in a curved banner reading BANCO PROVINCIAL DE STA FE, flanked on each side by circular guilloche medallions bearing the fraction 1/2 and the legend MEDIO REAL. To the right, a vignette of a female portrait bust set within a circular frame. The central text area states VALE POR MEDIO REAL above a promise-to-pay clause in Spanish, with a manuscript signature for the bank and a handwritten date at Rosario. The imprint of the lithographer E. Pieviti, Aduana, Rosario appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO PROVINCIAL DE STA FE MEDIO REAL VALE POR MEDIO REAL Pagaremos a la vista al portador de DIEZ Y SEIS de estos billetes UN PESO Moneda Boliviana efectivo ó su equivalente en Moneda de la Ley. POR EL BANCO: Rosario, Enero 1 de 1875 MEDIO REAL BOLIVIANO Litog. E. Pieviti, Aduana, Rosario |
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One of the more unusual instruments to circulate in late nineteenth-century Argentina, this note was issued by a provincial bank in Santa Fé denominated in Bolivian currency — a practical concession to the commercial reality of the Litoral region, where Bolivian reales and macuquinas remained in common use for small transactions long after the Buenos Aires peso had nominally unified the republic's larger commerce.
Printed by Pieviti's lithographic workshop on the Aduana in Rosario rather than sent abroad to a European security printer — a telling economy for a minor provincial emission.