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1 Real Plata Boliviana *
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Rosario |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The face of this provincial note is dominated by the bold letterpress inscription EL BANCO ARGENTINO across the upper portion, flanked by repeated guilloche-bordered marginal lettering reading UN REAL. A central vignette contains a large numeral 1 set within a fine lathe-work underprint, with the legend VALE POR to its left and UN REAL to its right. Below, the place and date of issue are printed in letterpress — Rosario, 1° Julio de 1869 — followed by a handwritten promise to pay one peso plata boliviana to the bearer of eight such notes, with manuscript signatures at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO ARGENTINO VALE POR UN REAL No. ROSARIO, 1° Julio de 1869 Pagará a la vista UN PESO plata boliviana al portador de Ocho de estos billetes. UN REAL UN REAL UN REAL UN REAL |
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The Banco Argentino was one of several provincial banks operating in Rosario during the fractured monetary period before Argentina's national banking legislation consolidated the field. Notes denominated in "reales plata boliviana" reflect a genuine practical problem: Bolivian silver coinage circulated extensively in the interior provinces, and bank paper had to be denominated in terms the local commercial class actually used, not in pesos fuertes favored along the Río de la Plata littoral.
The asterisk designation in the Pick Supplement reference typically signals either a proof, remainder, or unissued status — worth confirming against the Cuhaj records before cataloging as a circulated example.