Catalog
1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco de Londres y Río de La Plata, Córdoba |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1726 |
| Obverse description | The obverse carries the bold heading BANCO DE LONDRES Y RIO DE LA PLATA at the top centre, with a serial number in the upper panel. To the left, an oval vignette contains a horse's head in fine intaglio engraving. The central text panel bears the promise-to-pay legend in Spanish, with the denomination UN PESO repeated multiple times in the border and corner panels, all set within an intricate guilloche framework. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE LONDRES Y RIO DE LA PLATA VALE POR UN PESO Pagaremos á la vista y al portador UN PESO moneda liviana en efectivo ó su equivalente en moneda de ley Córdoba, 7 de Noviembre de 1869 Por el Banco UN PESO |
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Banco de Londres y Río de la Plata was a British-chartered institution operating in Argentina, and its Córdoba branch issues are among the rarer provincial variants in the series. The American Bank Note Company handled the printing in New York, as it did for a large portion of Latin American commercial bank issues throughout the 1860s and 1870s — the company effectively had a near-monopoly on quality intaglio work for the region during this period.
Provincial Argentine private bank notes of this vintage were frequently rendered worthless by the national banking reforms of the early 1880s, which consolidated currency issuance and forced branch closures. Survivors are scarce relative to the Buenos Aires issues from the same institution.