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1 Real Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco del Rosario de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress note printed in black on pale paper, enclosed within a repetitive ornamental border frame. Two oval vignettes, each bearing the numeral '1' and the legend 'REAL M', are positioned at left and right of the central denomination 'UN REAL' in bold display type. Below, the promise-to-pay text in Spanish is dated Rosario, 12 de Octubre de 1869, with a manuscript signature at lower left and the imprint 'Litª del Rosario' at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DEL ROSARIO DE STA. FE VALE POR UN REAL Pagará a la vista al peso plata boliviana al favor de Ocho de octubre de... Rosario, 12 de Octubre de 1869 Por el Banco: 1 REAL M |
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Banco del Rosario de Santa Fé was one of the provincial banks that proliferated across Argentina in the 1860s under a loose free-banking framework, before the national government moved to consolidate monetary authority in the 1870s and 1880s. The denomination in reales plata boliviana is telling — Bolivia's silver coinage circulated heavily in the interior provinces and was often more trusted than domestically minted currency, so tying a note's face value to that standard was a commercial decision as much as a monetary one.
Printed locally in Rosario rather than sent abroad to the established security printers of London or Paris, which was the more common route for prestige issues.