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10 Pesos Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Rio Cuarto, Rio Cuarto |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a single dark blue-grey ink with a simple but bold design centred on a large guilloche oval bearing the numeral 10, encircled by the legend EL BANCO RIO CUARTO. The word DIEZ appears to the left and PESOS to the right of the central medallion in large serif capitals, all set within a plain rectangular border composed of a repeated ornamental lace pattern running the full perimeter of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO RIO CUARTO DIEZ 10 PESOS |
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Banco Rio Cuarto was one of the short-lived provincial banks that emerged in Argentina during the 1870s banking free-for-all, when individual provinces and private institutions could charter their own note-issuing banks with minimal federal oversight. The 1826 national bank experiment had collapsed decades earlier, leaving a vacuum that regional banks rushed to fill — often with inadequate reserves and shaky redemption guarantees.
The denomination in pesos bolivianos is a telling detail. By the 1870s, Bolivian silver coinage still circulated widely across the interior Argentine provinces, and quoting notes in that unit was a practical concession to local commerce rather than any formal monetary relationship with Bolivia.