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5 Pesos Moneda Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco de Mendoza |
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| Year | 1877 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with the bank title EL BANCO DE MENDOZA across the top in bold letterpress. A central vignette shows a classical neoclassical building facade with figures in the foreground, flanked by two large green guilloche ovals each bearing the numeral 5. Below the central vignette, the inscription PAGARA AL PORTADOR Y A LA VISTA appears above the denomination legend CINCO PESOS BOLIVIANOS in bold capitals, with a further line reading o su equivalente en moneda de ley and the date Enero 1o de 1877. Signature lines for PRESIDENTE and GERENTE appear at the lower left and right respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE MENDOZA PAGARA AL PORTADOR Y A LA VISTA CINCO PESOS BOLIVIANOS o su equivalente en moneda de ley Enero 1o de 1877 PRESIDENTE GERENTE CINCO PESOS |
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The Banco de Mendoza was one of several provincial Argentine banks that issued their own currency during the brief free-banking period of the 1870s, before the national government moved to consolidate monetary authority. This 5 Pesos Moneda Boliviana note denominates in a currency unit tied to the Bolivian peso — practical in Mendoza, which maintained active commercial traffic across the Andes into Bolivia and Chile, where that monetary reference carried real meaning.
Provincial bank issues from this period were outlawed by the 1880s, and the Banco de Mendoza itself did not survive the subsequent centralization. Surviving notes are scarce largely because redemption was enforced, not because circulation was light.