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10 Pesos Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Daniel González y Ca. |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and green on white paper, with a central vignette of a rural scene showing horsemen and oxen in a pastoral landscape. To the lower left, a portrait vignette of a young woman is set within an oval frame, mirrored on the lower right by a second female portrait vignette. The issuer's name appears in bold lettering across the upper centre, with the denomination DIEZ PESOS inscribed in the lower central panel; the word MUESTRA (specimen) is overprinted in red multiple times across the face. |
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| Reverse lettering | DANIEL GONZALEZ Y COMPA. DESCUENTOS Y DEPOSITOS MENDOZA DIEZ PESOS DIEZ 10 |
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Daniel González y Compañía was a private commercial house operating out of Mendoza, and this note belongs to a period when Argentine provincial commerce routinely ran on quasi-banking paper issued by merchant firms rather than chartered institutions. The Bolivian silver peso — the plata boliviana — was the dominant trade currency across the Cuyo region at mid-century, and denominating private notes in it rather than in Argentine currency was a straightforward acknowledgment of what actually changed hands in the market.
Provincial private issues from Mendoza in this decade are genuinely rare survivors. The firm's lifespan as a note-issuer was short, and redemption or simple destruction claimed most of the paper.