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10 Pesos Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos Plata Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio printing on white paper with green underprint. The central vignette is an oval scene of a cattle drive with horsemen, framed by ornate guilloche work. The bank title BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ runs in bold letterpress across the centre, with the denomination DIEZ PESOS PLATA BOLIVIANA stated in the text body; numeral 10 counters appear at upper right and lower corners, a compass rose medallion occupies the lower left, and a vignette of a dog's head is placed at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse is dominated by a large oval guilloche rosette formed by multiple concentric bands of lathe work, with the numeral 10 repeated throughout the surround. The centre of the rosette carries the inscription DIEZ PESOS BOLIVIANOS in bold serif lettering, while the bank title EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FE is split across the top and bottom margins in large capitals. |
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The Banco Provincial de Santa Fé was a provincial institution operating under Argentina's decentralized banking regime of the 1870s, when each province retained authority to charter its own note-issuing bank. That arrangement collapsed after the 1890 Baring Crisis prompted the national government to consolidate currency control, making all such provincial issues obsolete — and most were redeemed and destroyed in bulk.
The American Bank Note Company contract for this series was typical of how Argentine provincial banks sourced their security printing at the time, New York being the dominant supplier for South American issuers throughout the 1870s. The denomination in plata boliviana rather than pesos fuertes reflects the fractured currency conventions of the Río de la Plata region, where Bolivian silver coinage still served as a reference standard in interior provinces far from Buenos Aires.