Catalog
1 Real Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Rosario |
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| Year | 1866 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain rectangular note with a central oval vignette of a hand holding a quill pen, flanked by the numeral '1' in each corner. The header reads 'EL BANCO ARGENTINO' in bold letterpress, with 'UN REAL' in a boxed panel to the right. The text below states the obligation to pay one peso plata boliviana to the bearer, with the place of issue 'Rosario' and the manuscript date of 1866 visible in the lower body. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO ARGENTINO UN REAL Nº Pagará á la vista un Peso plata boliviana al portador de Ocho de estos billetes. Rosario, de de 186 Por el Banco |
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The Banco Argentino operated out of Rosario during a brief and turbulent window in Argentine provincial banking, before the national government moved to consolidate monetary authority in the 1880s. The denomination itself — Real Plata Boliviana — reflects the persistent use of Bolivian silver coinage as a de facto circulating standard in the interior provinces, where Spanish colonial monetary units outlasted independence by decades.
PS1517A2 is among the earliest documented emissions from this issuer. Rosario-printed provincial notes from this period survive in very small numbers; most saw hard use in a commercial port city that was expanding rapidly on the back of the cereal export trade.