Catalog
10 Pesos Plata Corriente Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan - Sucursal (Branch) Catamarca |
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| Year | 187_ |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Horizontal format note with two oval guilloche cartouches bearing the numeral '10' at left and right. The central text area carries the bank name and branch inscription above the denomination in large bold letters, with a vignette in the lower left portion showing a rural landscape with ox-cart and mountainous background. The word 'MUESTRA' (specimen) is overprinted diagonally across the lower centre. Printed in dark purple ink on plain paper by Guillermo Kraft, Buenos Aires. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA SUCURSAL DEL BANCO DE SAN JUAN EN CATAMARCA pagara a la vista al portador el valor de DIEZ PESOS PLATA CORRIENTE BOLIVIANA en moneda corriente en esta Provincia o su equivalente en moneda de ley. CATAMARCA de 187_ Consejero Gerente DIEZ MUESTRA Guillermo Kraft Reconquista 62 Bs. Aires. |
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The Banco de San Juan was a Bolivian-chartered bank operating branches across the Argentine northwest during the 1870s — an arrangement that made legal and commercial sense at the time, given the deep mercantile ties between the Andean provinces and Bolivia, but which placed the issuing authority in a peculiar regulatory limbo relative to Argentine federal banking law. The Catamarca branch was one of several such outposts extending the bank's note circulation into territories where local banking infrastructure was almost nonexistent.
Guillermo Kraft was among the most active commercial printers in Buenos Aires during this period, handling a wide range of provincial and foreign-chartered bank issues. The incomplete date ("187_") indicates the final digit was to be filled in at the branch level upon issue — a common practice that also makes precise dating of surviving examples impossible without additional provenance.