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1 Peso Banco de La Alianza
| Issuer | Banco de La Alianza |
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| Year | 1877 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA ALIANZA Pagara al portador la vista en Santiago UN PESO Moneda Corriente. Santiago, _______ de 1877. Superintendente de la Casa de la Moneda American Bank Note Co, New York (Translation: The Bank of La Alianza Will pay the bearer the view in Santiago One Peso Common Currency Santiago, ________, 1877 Superintendent of Casa de la Moneda) |
| Reverse description | Printed in green. The central design consists of a large circular guilloche medallion bearing the bank name on a ribbon scroll, flanked at left and right by two ornate wreath-and-guilloche roundels each enclosing the numeral "1". The printer's imprint "American Bank Note Company, New York" appears at the bottom center. |
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Banco de La Alianza was one of several private provincial banks operating in Argentina during the 1870s, when the national government had not yet established a monopoly over currency issuance. These institutions issued their own notes backed — in theory — by metallic reserves, though the degree of actual backing varied considerably and was not always subject to rigorous oversight. The bank's reliance on the American Bank Note Company placed it in good technical company, but ABNC contracts were accessible to solvent institutions across Latin America and carried no particular prestige signal beyond basic print quality.