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1 Peso Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Santa Fé, Rosario |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S822 |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ PAGARÁ A LA VISTA UN PESO PLATA BOLIVIANA Las monedas de su equivalente en determinadas por la Ley Nacional Serie No. EL INSPECTOR EL DIRECTOR Rosario, Enero 1° de 1875 LITA. PEÓN, BOLÍVAR & Cía. BS. AIRES |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse is composed of an elaborate all-over guilloche pattern with three large interlocking oval medallions arranged horizontally. The central medallion carries the bank name in bold roman lettering within a rectilinear cartouche, flanked on each side by smaller oval medallions containing a stylised monogram or cypher, all surrounded by intricate lace-like lathe-work borders and floral rosette ornaments filling the corners. |
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The Banco Provincial de Santa Fé operated out of Rosario rather than the provincial capital, a deliberate choice reflecting Rosario's dominance as a commercial and port hub on the Paraná River by the 1870s. The peso plata boliviana was a unit of account tied to Bolivian silver coinage that circulated widely in the Argentine interior at the time — not a currency the bank invented, but one it was obliged to acknowledge given actual trade realities on the ground.
Peón, Bolívar & Cía. was one of the few Buenos Aires lithographic firms capable of producing fiduciary paper locally at this date, most Argentine banks still defaulting to European printers. The PS#822 reference places this among the earlier emissions of the series.