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1 Real Boliviano
| Issuer | Banco J. Benites é Hijo |
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| Year | 1867 |
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| Value | 1 Real Boliviano |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with a large numeral '1' at upper left, flanked by a vignette of two cherubs in a classical composition at the left margin. A circular guilloche medallion with the numeral '1' appears at centre-right, surrounded by the inscription 'UN REAL BOLIVIANO' in bold letterpress. The issuer's name 'EL BANCO J. BENITES é HIJO' is set in large display type across the centre, above a boxed promise-to-pay text in script and Roman type. The place of issue 'GUALEGUAYCHU' and date 'ENERO 1º DE 1867' are printed at the top, with serial number and letter prefix at upper left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Nº 082709 GUALEGUAYCHU ENERO 1º DE 1867 UN REAL BOLIVIANO EL BANCO J. BENITES é HIJO Pagará al portador y á la vista UN REAL Boliviano dando cuatro reales de la misma especie por Cuatro de estos billetes. pp J. Benites é hijos |
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Banco J. Benites é Hijo was a private Argentine provincial bank operating out of Entre Ríos province, and this 1867 emission is among the rarest surviving examples of locally printed commercial paper currency from the Río de la Plata region in the 1860s. The note was printed in Gualeguaychú itself — unusual at a time when most Argentine private banks contracted presses in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, or abroad.
The "Real Boliviano" denomination places this squarely in the transitional monetary confusion of the period, when Spanish colonial unit names persisted in commercial use alongside the peso and the newer decimal systems.