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1 Real Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Santa Fé, Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress note with guilloche border repeating the denomination ONE along all four margins. The upper portion carries the place and date "SANTA-FE, 1° de Noviembre 1874" alongside "SERIE UNA" and a stamped serial number in red. The central axis is dominated by the bold title EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA-FÉ above a promise-to-pay legend, flanked by circular denomination medallions reading REAL at left and right; a central vignette in the lower register presents a pastoral scene of cattle grazing, with a small oval REAL medallion at lower right, and the authorization line POR EL DIRECTORIO below. |
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The Banco Provincial de Santa Fé occupied an awkward position in Argentine monetary history — provincial banks issued their own notes throughout the 1860s and 1870s, often with wildly inconsistent backing, and Santa Fé was no exception. The "Real Plata Boliviana" denomination reflects the stubborn persistence of colonial-era silver accounting units well into the national period, years after the peso had nominally unified the currency.
The Rosario variant (PS-820) and this Santa Fé placement share the same basic design but differ in the place-of-payment text — a small distinction that matters considerably to type collectors.