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1 Real Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Currency | Real (1813-1881) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on white paper and centred on a central vignette of a sailing ship at sea, flanked on either side by oval medallions bearing the numeral "1" within guilloche surrounds. The upper border carries ornate lathe-work, while the lower half bears the issuer's name "EL BANCO ARGENTINO" in bold letterpress, followed by a cursive promise-to-pay legend in Spanish and the denomination "UN REAL" set within a decorative panel. The place and date of issue, Santa Fe, July 1873, appear below, accompanied by a manuscript signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO ARGENTINO Pagará á la vista y al portador UN REAL plata boliviana ó su equivalente en Santa Fé SERIE A. |
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El Banco Argentino de Santa Fe was one of the provincial banks that briefly flourished under Argentina's 1872 banking law, which allowed individual provinces to charter note-issuing institutions before the national government eventually consolidated that authority. The denomination in reales plata boliviana rather than pesos is telling — Bolivia's silver coinage still circulated widely in the interior provinces, and Santa Fe's commercial ties ran more toward the Littoral trade routes than toward Buenos Aires.
The ABNC plate was almost certainly a shared or adapted design; the company routinely supplied multiple Argentine provincial banks from its New York workshop during this period, which sometimes makes attribution tricky without the printed bank name as a guide.