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10 Pesos Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco del Rosario de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by an elaborate border of interlocking guilloche and ornamental scroll work, with the denomination numeral '10' in large foliated letters at upper left and upper right. A central vignette depicts a pastoral rural scene with cattle resting in a landscape, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. Two allegorical female portrait vignettes appear at lower left and lower right, flanking the issuer name and the promise-to-pay inscription in letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO ROSARIO DE STAFE Pagará a la vista DIEZ PESOS plata boliviana o su equivalente en moneda de ley. Rosario 1ro Octubre de 1869. 10 |
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The Banco Rosario de Santa Fé was one of several provincial Argentine banks that briefly flourished under the permissive banking legislation of the 1860s, issuing their own notes before federal authorities moved to consolidate currency control. The denomination in pesos plata boliviana — Bolivian silver pesos — rather than pesos fuertes or moneda corriente reflects the commercial reality of the Río de la Plata interior, where Bolivian coinage remained the dominant hard currency in trade circuits running through Rosario and into the Andean northwest.
The bank itself had a short operational life; Argentine provincial banking collapsed rapidly after the 1873 financial crisis.