1 Real Plata Boliviana

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.