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1/2 Real Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco del Rosario de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Value | ½ Real Plata Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note with a central vignette of a sheep within an oval frame, flanked by the value '1/2' on either side. The bank name 'EL BANCO DEL ROSARIO' appears across the top in bold letterpress, with 'MEDIO REAL' in large display type below the vignette. A text clause reading 'Pagará á la vista UN PESO Plata Boliviana al portador de DIEZ Y SEIS de estos Billetes' is printed in a smaller serif typeface, with the date '17 DE JULIO DE 1866' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DEL ROSARIO VALE POR MEDIO REAL Pagará á la vista UN PESO Plata Boliviana al portador de DIEZ Y SEIS de estos Billetes Por el Banco 17 DE JULIO DE 1866 |
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Banco del Rosario was one of several provincial banks chartered in Argentina during the brief liberal banking experiment of the 1860s, before the national government moved to consolidate currency control. The Santa Fé institutions were notoriously short-lived — most collapsed or were absorbed within a decade, and their lower-denomination fractional notes saw the heaviest circulation and the highest attrition rates.
The Real Plata Boliviana was a colonial monetary unit still in everyday use across the Río de la Plata region long after independence, particularly for small transactions where the new national denominations had failed to penetrate.