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1 Peso Plata Boliviano
| Issuer | Banco del Río de La Plata, Gualeguay |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Printer | Lito. Mayo y Williams, Buenos Aires |
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| Obverse description | Black and orange letterpress note with an ornate guilloche border enclosing the central field. The bank title BANCO DEL RIO DE LA PLATA is set in large bold lettering across the upper portion, flanked by the numeral 1 at each corner; a central orange oval guilloche underprint carries the promise-to-pay text in script, reading 'Pagaremos a la vista Un Peso plata boliviano al portador de Uno de estos Vales', dated Gualeguay, 28 de Setiembre de 1868. A small circular vignette with radiating engine-turned lines appears above the central panel, with repeated VALE POR UN PESO and PLATA BOLIVIANO legends throughout the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DEL RIO DE LA PLATA VALE POR UN PESO PLATA BOLIVIANO Payaremos a la vista Un Peso plata boliviano al portador de Uno de estos Vales Gualeguay, 28 de Setiembre de 1868 POR EL BANCO UN PESO Lito. Mayo y Williams, Bs. Ayres |
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The Banco del Río de La Plata was one of several provincial Argentine banks chartered in the 1860s under the permissive banking legislation that briefly allowed Entre Ríos and other provinces to issue their own currency. Gualeguay, a river port town in Entre Ríos, was a logical seat for a bank with commercial ambitions tied to the Paraná trade routes. The denomination in pesos plata boliviano — Bolivian silver pesos — reflects the chaotic monetary reality of mid-19th century Argentina, where no single national currency dominated and regional commerce ran on whatever specie was trusted locally.
Mayo y Williams operated out of Buenos Aires and handled lithographic work for several of these provincial bank issues. Their output was competent but modest in ambition.