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1 Peso Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco del Rosario de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Value | 1 Peso Plata Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio-printed note with the bank title BANCO ROSARIO DE STA. FE in bold lettering across the upper centre, flanked by two numeral-1 medallions at the upper corners. A central oval vignette presents an allegorical rural scene with figures and a building in the background, surrounded by fine guilloche work and repeated UNO and UN PESO border inscriptions. The date 1 de Octubre de 1869 appears at the right, below which a handwritten signature and a circular bank seal are visible, with the promise text Pagará á la vista UN PESO plata boliviana ó su equivalente en moneda de ley inscribed across the lower half. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing plain aged cotton paper with no design elements, text, or security features, consistent with many provincial Argentine bank issues of the 1860s. |
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The Banco Rosario de Santa Fé was one of several provincial Argentine banks that issued peso plata boliviana-denominated notes during the 1860s, a period when Bolivia's silver coinage still circulated widely in the interior provinces and provided a more trusted unit of account than the fluctuating Buenos Aires paper peso. Denominating in plata boliviana was a commercial decision rooted in the trade routes running through the Littoral and into the Andean northwest.
The bank itself had a short operational life before national banking reforms curtailed provincial note issuance. PS#1854 survivors are accordingly rare.