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1 Real Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Córdoba |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Currency | Real (1813-1881) |
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| Obverse description | Orange and black note with a central vignette of a sailing vessel at sea, flanked by two oval medallions each bearing a stylized letter 'A' on a lathe-work background. The issuer's name 'EL BANCO ARGENTINO' appears in bold letterpress below the vignette, with a cursive promise-to-pay legend in Spanish and the denomination 'UN REAL' set within a black cartouche. The serial number is printed in red at upper right, with 'SERIE A' at upper left, and the place and date 'Córdoba, 10 de Julio de 1873' inscribed below; the printer's imprint of the American Bank Note Co., New York appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO ARGENTINO Pagará á la vista y al portador UN REAL plata boliviana o su equivalente en moneda de Serie A Córdoba, 10 de Julio de 1873 American Bank Note Co. New York |
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The Banco Argentino operated briefly in Córdoba during the chaotic provincial banking period that preceded Argentina's National Bank Law of 1887, which ultimately swept most of these short-lived institutions out of existence. Provincial banks issuing their own notes denominated in reales plata boliviana were trading on a unit already losing ground to the peso fuerte — an awkward position that tells you something about the commercial realities of the interior provinces in the early 1870s.
ABNC supplied engraved plates to dozens of Latin American issuers during this period, and surviving examples from this particular institution are genuinely uncommon, likely reflecting limited original print runs rather than heavy circulation losses.