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10 Pesos Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Comercial de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1867 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print on cream paper with a central vignette of a riverport scene flanked on either side by the numeral 10. A standing female allegorical figure in classical robes is at the left border, and a second standing allegorical female figure with foliage is at the right; both are rendered in fine engraved style. The bank title EL BANCO COMERCIAL DE SANTA FE arches across the upper portion, with the denomination DIEZ PESOS PLATA BOLIVIANA inscribed in the centre, and a manuscript signature and overprint reading SANTA FE appear in the lower section. |
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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 |
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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.