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10 Pesos Moneda Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco de Londres y Río de La Plata, Rosario |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos Moneda Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries the bank title BANCO DE LONDRES Y RIO DE LA PLATA in bold letterpress across the upper centre, flanked by an oval portrait vignette of a uniformed military figure at centre-right. The text VALE POR DIEZ PESOS and a promise-to-pay clause in Spanish script occupy the central field, with the place and date ROSARIO 15 de Noviembre de 1869 inscribed below. Denomination numerals 10 appear repeatedly within the ornate guilloche border corners, and a serial number is printed in the upper margin. |
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| Reverse description | No reverse image available; the reverse of this private bank issue is presumed to carry ornamental guilloche work and denomination inscriptions consistent with Argentine provincial banknote printing conventions of the period. |
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The Banco de Londres y Río de La Plata was a British-chartered institution that operated across Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil from the 1860s onward — one of several foreign banks issuing provincial paper currency in Argentina before the national banking framework tightened. The Rosario branch issued its own notes independently of the Buenos Aires office, reflecting how fragmented Argentine monetary authority remained in this period.
The denomination in Bolivian pesos rather than Argentine moneda corriente is the detail worth pausing on. Bolivia's silver peso circulated widely in the interior provinces, particularly around Rosario and the Litoral, making it a practical unit of account for commerce moving along the Paraná river trade routes.