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1 Peso Banco de La Alianza
| Issuer | Banco de La Alianza |
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| Year | 1877 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S121 |
| Obverse description | Black on tan underprint. The Chilean Coat of Arms appears as a vignette at left, a palace vignette occupies the center, and a female head vignette is at right. Inscriptions include the bank name, denomination, and place of issue, with the printer's imprint of the American Bank Note Co., New York. |
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| 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.