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1 Real Boliviano
| Issuer | Banco Oxandaburu y Garbino |
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| Year | 1867 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The face of this private bolivian issue carries the bank's full title OXANDABURU Y GARVINO across the upper register in bold letterpress, above the promise line PAGARA AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA. A central vignette at left shows a seated allegorical figure, while the denomination UN REAL BOLIVIANO is stated in large text across the centre. The date COCHABAMBA, DICIEMBRE 1° DE 1867 appears in manuscript, accompanied by a handwritten signature below. |
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| Reverse lettering | UN REAL BOLIVIANO |
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Banco Oxandaburu y Garbino was a private commercial bank operating in Bolivia during the brief window when the country permitted provincial note-issuing banks — an experiment that ended badly for most of them. Very few institutions from this period left any surviving paper at all, which makes PS#1799 genuinely rare by default rather than by collector demand alone.
The "Real Boliviano" denomination places this note at an odd transitional moment: Bolivia had adopted the decimal system in 1863, yet the real persisted in everyday commerce and private banking instruments well into the late 1860s.