1 Peso Banco del Salto

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.