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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Londres y Río de La Plata, Rosario |
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| Year | 1871 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Green and black note with a central oval vignette containing a portrait bust of a male figure at upper centre, set within an elaborate guilloche border. The bank title BANCO DE LONDRES Y RIO DE LA PLATA arches across the top in bold letterpress, with VALE POR DIEZ PESOS below the portrait and the denomination 10 PESOS repeated in the four corners. A payment obligation text in Spanish occupies the lower central panel, with the place and date ROSARIO, 10 de Noviembre de 1871 and the signature line POR EL BANCO printed at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE LONDRES Y RIO DE LA PLATA VALE POR DIEZ PESOS 10 PESOS Pagarémos á la rista y al portador DIEZ PESOS moneda boliviana en efectivo ó su equivalente en moneda de ley al tipo de Veinte y un pesos bolivianos por diez y seis pesos fuertes ROSARIO, 10 de Noviembre de 1871 POR EL BANCO |
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The Banco de Londres y Río de La Plata was the Argentine branch of the London and River Plate Bank, a British overseas bank that opened in Buenos Aires in 1862 and expanded to Rosario shortly after. Provincial banks in Argentina retained note-issuing rights through much of the 1860s and 1870s, and British commercial banks operating in the region issued their own paper alongside domestic institutions — a circumstance that ended progressively as national monetary consolidation tightened through the late 1880s.
Rosario-branch issues from this period are meaningfully scarcer than their Buenos Aires counterparts. The city was growing fast in 1871, driven by grain export trade, but its financial infrastructure was thinner and note circulation correspondingly smaller.