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1 Real Boliviano
| Issuer | Caja de Ahorros, Rosario |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Value | 1 Real Boliviano |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress and intaglio print on plain paper. The central portion bears the bold title LA CAJA DE AHORROS surmounting a rectangular panel with the text VALE POR 1 UN REAL and the date ROSARIO, 1º Julio 1870. Two ornate circular vignettes flank the centre, each enclosing a stylised monogram. Left and right margins carry vertical inscriptions reading UN REAL. Below the central panel, two seated peasant figures in native dress appear at lower left and lower right, framing a text block promising payment of CUATRO REALES BOLIVIANOS per four notes, followed by a manuscript directorial signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | UNO · UNO LA CAJA DE AHORROS VALE POR 1 UN REAL ROSARIO. 1º Julio 1870 Pagadera á la vista y al portador CUATRO REALES BOLIVIANOS por CUATRO de estos billetes. Por el Directorio: UN REAL LIT. CARLOS HELD ROSARIO |
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The Caja de Ahorros of Rosario was one of several provincial savings institutions that briefly entered note issuance during the 1860s and 1870s, a period when Argentina's monetary supply was chronically fragmented — each province effectively managing its own paper credit. The Real Boliviano as a unit of account was already anachronistic by 1870, a holdover from colonial-era reckoning still in informal use across the interior long after the peso had nominally taken over.
Lit. Carlos Held was a German-Argentine lithographic firm operating in Rosario, better known for commercial printing than banknote production. The note's local manufacture rather than importation from an established security printer in Europe or the United States puts it at the modest end of Argentine provincial issues.