100 Pesos Fuertes Banco de Barcelona

The Banco de Barcelona, founded in 1844 as Spain's first private commercial bank, issued this note during one of the most turbulent stretches in nineteenth-century Spanish politics — the Glorious Revolution of September 1868 that deposed Isabella II broke out the same year. Whether notes dated 1868 were issued before or after the September coup is not always easy to determine, and the political upheaval that followed created genuine uncertainty around the standing of regional issuing banks relative to the newly reorganized central authorities.

The Banco de Barcelona retained its right of issue until the 1874 decree that consolidated note-issuing privilege with the Banco de España, at which point all outstanding provincial bank notes were progressively withdrawn.