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1 Real Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Córdoba |
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| Value | 1 Real Plata Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is enclosed within an ornate typographic border composed of repeating numeral and medallion motifs. At left, a circular vignette presents a horse's head in profile, surmounted by a ribbon scroll inscribed UN REAL. The central panel carries the bank title BANCO ARGENTINO / CORDOBA in bold letterpress above the denomination legend UN REAL, with a manuscript registration line and a promise-to-pay clause reading that the bank will pay to the bearer of eight such notes one peso plata boliviana or its legal currency equivalent. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears no deliberate printed design; the thin paper stock allows a faint blind impression of the obverse letterpress to show through as a mirror-image offset, with no vignette, border, or text intentionally applied to this side. |
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The Banco Argentino operated briefly in Córdoba during the provincial free banking period of the 1860s, when Argentine provinces issued their own currency with minimal federal oversight. This note predates the 1890 Baring Crisis and the subsequent consolidation of Argentine banking under the Caja de Conversión — it belongs to an earlier, messier monetary experiment when dozens of provincial and private banks printed their own obligations with wildly varying levels of specie backing.
The denomination in reales plata boliviana is telling. Bolivia's silver peso circulated widely in the interior provinces long after Argentina's own monetary nomenclature had shifted, and Córdoba's commercial ties to the Andean trade routes made it a practical reference unit for local transactions well into the 1870s.