Catalog
1 Peso Banco del Salto
| Issuer | Banco del Salto |
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| Year | 1863 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | UN PESO 2da. Serie EL BANCO DEL SALTO VALE POR UN PESO Pagará al portador y á la vista UN PESO dando UN DOBLON de ORO sellado ó su equivalente en la misma especie por DIEZ de estos billetes. SALTO, 2 de Enero de 1863. LEY DE 18 DE JULIO DE 1858 (Translation: One Peso 2nd. Series The Salto Bank Valid for one Peso Will pay to bearer and at sight one Peso, giving one sealed gold Doblón or its equivalent in same specie for ten of these notes. Salto, January 2nd., 1863 Law from July 18th., 1858) |
| Reverse description | The verso is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain paper with no typographic, engraved, or decorative elements. |
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Banco del Salto was one of several provincial banks that emerged in Uruguay during the 1860s under legislation permitting departmental banking, a brief experiment that ended when the Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay was established and private note-issuing rights were progressively curtailed. Salto, situated on the Uruguay River opposite the Argentine city of Concordia, had sufficient commercial activity from regional cattle trade and cross-river commerce to sustain its own issuing institution, at least briefly.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled a striking number of South American provincial commissions during this period, and the physical quality of their intaglio work consistently outclassed the notes they were meant to circulate alongside.