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1 Real Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1537 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in blue and dominated by a large central guilloche medallion with concentric lathe-work rings, at the centre of which appears the bank name and denomination in two lines within an oval cartouche. The word "UNO" is printed vertically in large capitals on both the left and right margins, framed by ornate scrollwork. The overall design is executed in a single colour with no additional vignette, relying entirely on geometric security engraving for its decorative effect. The printer's imprint appears at the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO ARGENTINO UN REAL UNO UNO |
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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.