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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 description | Green note with the bank title EL BANCO ARGENTINO in bold lettering across the top, flanked by the numeral 1 on both sides within ornate frames. A central vignette to the right portrays a rural pastoral scene with figures tending to horses at a trough, while a second vignette to the lower left presents a standing rhea (ñandú). Intricate guilloche borders run along the top and bottom margins, with the place of issue Concordia and date 1873 handwritten in the body of the note, and the imprint of the American Bank Note Company of New York along the lower border. |
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| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO ARGENTINO 1 Compañía Americana de Billetes de Banco Nueva York |
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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.