Catalog
1 Real Moneda Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco de Mendoza |
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| Year | 1877 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the bold title EL BANCO DE MENDOZA across the upper portion within an ornate frame. A central vignette illustrates a dynamic gaucho on horseback herding cattle across an open plain. Denomination numerals '1' appear in guilloche medallions at lower left and right corners, with the text 'Pagará al portador Un Real moneda boliviana o su equivalente en moneda de ley' and the date 'Enero 1o de 1877' below the vignette; a large underprint reads 'UN REAL'. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE MENDOZA Pagará al portador Un Real moneda boliviana o su equivalente en moneda de ley Enero 1o de 1877 POR EL BANCO UN REAL |
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The Banco de Mendoza was one of several Argentine provincial banks chartered in the 1870s under the permissive banking legislation that preceded the catastrophic collapse of provincial credit in the early 1880s. These institutions issued notes denominated in reales — an archaism already slipping out of everyday use as Argentina pushed toward a unified peso-based system. The real moneda boliviana was a local accounting unit tied to Bolivian silver circulation patterns in the Cuyo region, reflecting Mendoza's commercial orientation toward trans-Andean trade rather than Buenos Aires.
ABNC printed the series from New York, as they did for most Argentine provincial issuers of the period who could afford the quality and had reason to distrust domestic security printing.