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1 Real Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco del Litoral |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Value | 1 Real Plata Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion bears the issuer's name BANCO DEL LITORAL in bold letterpress, with the text RECONOCE ESTE BILLETE POR arching above the central denomination UN REAL rendered in large script, accompanied by the legend PLATA BOLIVIANA and a series designation. Numeral '1' vignettes are set within circular guilloche frames at the lower left and right corners. The date 'Panama, 1 Enero de 1874' is inscribed in the lower field, beneath which two manuscript signatures appear. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DEL LITORAL RECONOCE ESTE BILLETE POR UN REAL Plata Boliviana SERIE QUE PAGARA A LA VISTA Panama, 1 Enero de 1874 |
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Banco del Litoral operated out of Buenos Aires during the brief but turbulent period of provincial free banking in Argentina, before federal consolidation swept away most competing issuers. The "real plata boliviana" denomination is the telling detail here — it anchors the note to a monetary unit already being displaced by the peso system, a deliberate choice that signaled trust in a familiar silver standard at a moment when paper convertibility was openly doubted by merchants along the Paraná trade routes.
PS#1703 is among the scarcer Litoral issues. The bank's lifespan was short, redemption records were poorly maintained, and surviving notes passed through few hands before the series became commercially obsolete.