Catalog
1 Real Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco de Londres y Río de La Plata, Rosario |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Value | 1 Real Plata Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on white paper. The bank name BANCO DE LONDRES Y RIO DE LA PLATA is inscribed in large bold letters across the upper field, with the denomination numeral 1 in an ornate central cartouche flanked by the legend VALE POR UN REAL. A serial number appears in the upper panel within a rectangular frame, and the lower portion carries a handwritten promise-to-pay text in Spanish with the place and date Rosario followed by a manuscript signature. The entire note is framed by a repetitive guilloche border with the word REAL repeated at the corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE LONDRES Y RIO DE LA PLATA VALE POR UN REAL N° 484615 Pagaremos a la vista Un Peso plata boliviana al portador de Ocho de estos vales Rosario, 15 de Setiembre de 1866 UN REAL REAL |
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The Banco de Londres y Río de la Plata was a British joint-stock bank operating in Argentina — not an Argentine institution in any meaningful sense. Its Rosario branch served the booming wool and cereal trade moving through the Paraná river corridor, and small-denomination notes like this one were issued to fill the chronic shortage of fractional currency that plagued the interior provinces throughout the 1860s.
PS1731 is among the earliest documented emissions from the Rosario office and survives in very few examples. The "Plata Boliviana" denomination indicates value expressed in Bolivian silver pesos, the de facto trade currency of the Argentine interior at the time — a reminder of how fragmented and informal the monetary system of the region remained a full half-century after independence.