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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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| Currency | Real (1813-1881) |
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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 |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of pale cream paper stock, bearing only natural aging and surface wear consistent with circulation, with a handwritten endorsement or countersignature in ink at lower centre. |
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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.