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1 Real
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Rosario |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO ARGENTINO ROSARIO Registrado UN REAL UN REAL Pagará á la vista UN PESO plata boliv. ó su equivalente en moneda legal al portador de OCHO de estos billetes. POR EL BANCO |
| Reverse description | The reverse, on the same pink stock, carries no independent design elements; only a faint show-through of the obverse letterpress text and border ornaments is visible in light blue-grey ink, consistent with single-sided local or emergency issue printing practice. |
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Banco Argentino operated out of Rosario during the turbulent free-banking period of the Argentine provinces, when dozens of provincial and private banks issued their own paper currency with little federal oversight. The 1 Real denomination places this squarely in the pre-decimal transition years, when both reales and pesos circulated simultaneously and public confidence in private bank paper varied wildly by institution and region.
Rosario-issued private bank notes from this period are genuinely difficult to locate — most provincial free-banking institutions collapsed or were absorbed following the national banking reforms of the 1860s and 1870s, and their paper was largely redeemed, cancelled, or simply lost.