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1/2 Real Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Comercial de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1867 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Small-format note printed in dark olive-brown on plain paper, with the bank title EL BANCO COMERCIAL DE SANTA FÉ across the upper portion within a fine guilloche border. A vignette at left depicts a seated cherub, while a central oval vignette shows an allegorical scene; the denomination MEDIO REAL PLATA BOLIVIANA appears in a bold rectangular panel at centre. The date ROSARIO, MAYO 1° DE 1867 is printed to the right, with the promise text 'Pagará a la vista' and 'al portador de este billete' completing the face, above a manuscript signature. Repeated 'MEDIO' underprint text runs along all four margins. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this note is not visible in the provided image; no description can be confirmed. |
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The Banco Comercial de Santa Fé was one of several provincial Argentine banks that emerged in the 1860s operating under looser regulatory frameworks than the national institutions in Buenos Aires. Denominating this note in Reales Plata Boliviana was a deliberate commercial choice — Bolivian silver coinage circulated widely across the interior provinces and was the trusted transactional currency of the region's traders and merchants, far more than any Argentine paper equivalent.
Provincial notes of this period from Santa Fé rarely survived in quantity; redemption rates were low and issuer lifespans often short.