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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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| Currency | Real (1813-1881) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DEL ROSARIO UN REAL Pagará a la vista UN REAL al portador plata boliviana en efectivo El Gerente |
| Reverse description | The reverse of this private bank issue is unrecorded in the current catalog sources; no second image is available for description. |
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Banco del Rosario was one of several provincial Argentine banks chartered in the 1860s under the national banking law of 1863, which allowed provinces to establish note-issuing institutions backed by government bonds. Santa Fé's banking infrastructure at this period was thin, and fractional denominations like this half-real were a practical necessity in a province where small-change shortages were chronic and copper coin supply unreliable.
The "Plata Boliviana" designation is the telling detail — it pegged the note's value to Bolivian silver rather than to a domestic standard, reflecting how deeply Bolivian coinage had penetrated the interior Argentine currency supply by mid-century.