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1 Peso Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Concordia |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on white paper, with a border of repeated denomination text 'UNO' forming a guilloche frame. At upper centre, the bank title 'EL BANCO ARGENTINO' appears in bold lettering, flanked on both sides by the numeral '1'. The left vignette presents a standing rhea (ñandú), while the central vignette shows a rural scene with a horse and figures at a water trough in an intaglio-engraved pastoral composition. The denomination 'UN PESO' is printed in large letters across the lower centre, with the promise text in Spanish above it, and the imprint of the Compañía Americana / American Bank Note Company at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a single brown-red colour, dominated by three large interlocking medallion panels formed by elaborate lathe-work guilloche patterns. The central panel bears the large numeral '1' within an ornate frame, while the upper centre carries the two-line inscription 'EL BANCO' above 'ARGENTINO'. The entire composition is enclosed within a fine geometric guilloche border, with small corner numerals '1'. |
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Banco Argentino operated out of Concordia, Entre Ríos — a provincial banking environment that flourished briefly during the 1860s under Argentina's fragmented pre-national banking system, before the 1875-era reforms gradually centralized monetary authority. The denomination itself is telling: peso plata boliviana was a unit of account tied to the Bolivian silver peso, widely used in the Argentine interior and Mesopotamia region during this period when no single national currency held firm authority.
The ABNC plate work from this era is typically first-rate, but what matters here is the issuer's brevity — Banco Argentino of Concordia had a short operational window, which makes surviving notes genuinely uncommon rather than merely old.