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1 Real
| Issuer | Banco de Londres y Río de la Plata, Córdoba |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Value | 1 Real |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a circular portrait vignette at left, showing a male bust in profile, enclosed within an ornate guilloche border. The bank title BANCO DE LONDRES Y RIO DE LA PLATA is inscribed across the upper portion, with the denomination VALE POR UN REAL in a central oval panel. A handwritten text body below reads a promise-to-pay clause dated Córdoba, 15 de Noviembre de 1869, followed by a manuscript signature of the bank. Numeral 1 cornerpieces and the words UN REAL appear in the side borders. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE LONDRES Y RIO DE LA PLATA VALE POR UN REAL Pagamos á la vista UN PESO moneda boliviana en defecto su equivalente en moneda de legal portador de Ocho de estos vales Córdoba 15 de Noviembre de 1869 UN REAL 1 |
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The Banco de Londres y Río de la Plata was the first British-chartered bank to establish operations in Argentina, arriving in Buenos Aires in 1862. Its Córdoba branch opened later in the decade as part of a broader push into the interior provinces, where local commerce was poorly served by the Buenos Aires financial houses. This note was issued from that branch — the "Córdoba" designation is a branch identifier, not a separate institution.
1869 places this squarely in Argentina's pre-National Bank period, when provincial and foreign private banks issued their own paper freely. The Ley de Bancos of 1872 would begin to curtail that, and the national currency consolidation of 1883 effectively ended it. Branch-issued notes from interior offices of this bank are considerably rarer in surviving form than Buenos Aires issues.