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1 Peso Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco del Comercio, Gualeguay |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Value | 1 Peso Plata Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | A central oval vignette of a gaucho on horseback at full gallop dominates the face of the note, set within an ornate border. The bank title BANCO DEL COMERCIO arcs boldly across the upper portion, with the denomination UN PESO BOLIVIANO inscribed at the upper right. A cursive promise-to-pay text runs across the lower half over a large green guilloche underprint bearing the numeral 1 and the legend UN PESO, dated Gualeguay 1° de Mayo de 1869. |
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| Reverse description | No reverse image is available for this note; the reverse design details are not confirmed from catalog sources. |
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Banco del Comercio was one of the provincial free-banking era institutions that briefly flourished in the Argentine littoral before federal banking legislation ended the experiment. Gualeguay, a river port in Entre Ríos province, had sufficient commercial activity — largely tied to cattle and cowhide export — to support a local note-issuing bank, though for how long the bank actually operated and how widely these notes circulated remains poorly documented.
The PS prefix in the Pick reference signals this is catalogued among speciman or doubtful issuers — survival rate is extremely low, and whether notes of this series ever reached general circulation is an open question.