1 Real Moneda Boliviana

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.