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1 Real Boliviano
| Issuer | Banco Oxandaburu y Garbino |
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| Year | 1867 |
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| Currency | Real (1826-1872) |
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| Obverse lettering | OXANDABURU Y GARVINO PAGARA AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA UN REAL BOLIVIANO COCHABAMBA, DICIEMBRE 1° DE 1867 |
| Reverse description | The reverse of this local issue carries a plain design with the denomination UN REAL BOLIVIANO repeated in a guilloche-bordered panel, consistent with the simple letterpress production typical of provincial South American private bank notes of the 1860s. |
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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.