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10 Pesos Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Comercial de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1867 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO COMERCIAL DE SANTA FE Nº 035920 PAGARÁ Á LA VISTA DIEZ PESOS PLATA BOLIVIANA AL PORTADOR DE ESTE BILLETE SANTA FE 1º DE MAYO, 1867 POR EL BANCO DIEZ PESOS BOLIVIANOS BANCO COMERCIAL DE SANTA FE |
| Reverse description | Monochrome intaglio print in grey-brown tones, with a central vignette of cattle and sheep at pasture occupying the upper middle field, flanked by guilloche-bordered numeral 10 medallions at each corner. The large word DIEZ is printed diagonally across the centre as an underprint, overlaid by the bank name BANCO COMERCIAL DE SANTA FE in bold lettering. Allegorical figures — a seated female at the left and a standing male figure at the right — frame the composition within plain borders. |
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The Banco Comercial de Santa Fé was one of several provincial Argentine banks chartered in the 1860s under a decentralized banking model that allowed individual provinces to issue their own currency — an arrangement that lasted until the national banking reforms of the 1890s forced consolidation. The denomination in pesos plata boliviana reflects the practical reality of the Río de la Plata region at the time: Bolivian silver coinage circulated freely alongside Argentine and foreign specie, and banknotes denominated to match that coinage were easier to redeem at face value in daily trade.
ABNC's involvement was typical for Latin American provincial issuers of this period who lacked access to domestic security printers capable of producing fraud-resistant notes.