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1 Doblón 10 Pesos - Banco Montevideano
| Issuer | Banco Montevideano |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of an allegorical female figure arranged within a large numeral '1'. The issuer's name arches across the top, with the face value rendered in both letters and numerals repeated across the upper register, side borders, and diagonal corners. A typeset serial number in black overprint appears at center, with place and date inscribed at the bottom, the day, month, and final digit of the year left blank for manuscript completion by the issuing bank. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse with the face value expressed as the numeral '1' at center, flanked by the denomination in full lettering, and the same denomination inscription repeated in each of the four corners. |
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The Banco Montevideano was one of several private commercial banks chartered in Uruguay during the 1860s banking boom, operating under a liberal emissions framework that allowed institutions to issue their own notes without strict central oversight. This note's dual denomination — 1 Doblón and 10 Pesos simultaneously — reflects the currency confusion of the period, when the doubloon remained a meaningful unit of account alongside the peso for commercial transactions.
Printing by Litografía Wiegeland in Montevideo is notable. Most Uruguayan private bank paper of this era was contracted abroad, typically to British or French houses. A locally produced emission at this date is genuinely uncommon, and the lithographic quality reflects the limitations of what was available in-country.