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1 Peso Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Concordia |
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| Year | 1873 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO ARGENTINO UN PESO Plata Boliviana Pagadera a la vista Concordia SERIE Compañía Americana de Billetes de Banco Nueva York UNO |
| Reverse description | Entirely green back dominated by three large symmetrical guilloche rosettes arranged horizontally, each composed of intricate lathe-work geometric patterns within quatrefoil frames. A bold ornate numeral 1 is centered in the middle rosette, while the bank name EL BANCO at the top and ARGENTINO at the bottom arc across the design in capital lettering. The printer's imprint of the American Bank Note Company appears in small text along the lower margin on both sides. |
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Banco Argentino of Concordia was one of several provincial Argentine banks licensed under the 1854 Entre Ríos banking law, issuing notes denominated in Pesos Plata Boliviana — the Bolivian silver peso, which circulated widely in the interior provinces where Spanish colonial coinage still dominated trade long after independence. The denomination itself signals how far Buenos Aires monetary authority actually reached into the Littoral in the 1870s: not very far.
The American Bank Note Company printed the series in New York, as it did for most Argentine provincial banks of the period. PS#1459 is among the scarcer survivors of this issuer; Concordia's bank collapsed during the financial turbulence of the mid-1870s, cutting short the note's circulation life.