1 Real Plata Boliviana

The Banco Provincial de Santa-Fé was one of the provincial banks operating under Argentina's decentralized banking regime before the Banco Nacional absorbed much of that authority in the late 1870s. This Rosario-payable variant is catalogued separately from the Santa-Fé issue (PS-804) because the place of payment printed on the note determined where it could be redeemed — a meaningful distinction in a province where the two cities maintained distinct commercial networks and the overland distance between them was a practical barrier for ordinary transactions.

Provincial bank failures in the 1870s were common, and Santa-Fé's institution was no exception to that precarious era.