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1 Peso Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Comercial de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1867 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Grey-toned note with a central vignette of three peasant figures in traditional dress. An upper oval cartouche at left and right each bears the denomination '1 PESO BOLIVIANO'. A second vignette in the lower-left corner shows a seated figure with animals. The left margin carries a vertical overprint reading 'BANCO COMERCIAL DE SANTA FÉ'. The note is dated 'ROSARIO, MAYO 1º DE 1867' in the upper-right area, with a handwritten serial number below. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO COMERCIAL DE SANTA FÉ Pagará a la vista UN PESO PLATA BOLIVIANA al portador de este billete. POR EL BANCO. ROSARIO, MAYO 1º DE 1867 PESO BOLIVIANO A. Nº 035696 |
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The Banco Comercial de Santa Fé was one of several provincial Argentine banks that briefly flooded the interior with their own paper issues during the 1860s, before federal banking legislation progressively curtailed that autonomy. The denomination in pesos plata boliviana — the Bolivian silver peso — is the telling detail here: in Santa Fé province during this period, Bolivian coin circulated more reliably than Buenos Aires issues, and denominating paper in it was a straightforward acknowledgment of commercial reality on the ground.
The bank itself had a short independent life. Provincial note-issuing privileges were wound down following the Banco Nacional legislation of the 1870s.