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100 Reales de Vellón Banco de Cádiz
| Issuer | Banco de Cádiz |
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| Year | 1861 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The centre of the note is occupied by an intaglio vignette of a seated male figure, identifiable as Hercules, flanked by lion heads, rendered in a finely engraved classical style. The bank title BANCO DE CADIZ. appears in bold letterpress at the top within an ornate scrollwork cartouche, while two symmetrical guilloche panels to the left and right each bear the denomination SON 100 Rs VON. Handwritten date and place lines appear below the serial number panels, with three manuscript signatures at the foot identifying the Comisario Regio, the Director, and the Interventor, alongside a further Cajero endorsement. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is largely plain paper with a faint geometric guilloche underprint visible across the surface. A blue oval cancellation stamp reading BANCO DE CADIZ EN LIQUIDACION has been applied diagonally at centre, accompanied by a handwritten or typeset partial redemption notation reading Pagado 71½ %. |
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The Banco de Cádiz was one of Spain's provincial banks of issue authorized under the 1856 banking law, which briefly allowed regional institutions to circulate their own notes before the Banco de España gradually absorbed that privilege in the 1870s and extinguished it entirely in 1874. Cádiz, as a major Atlantic port, had the commercial volume to justify a local bank, but the provincial series never achieved wide territorial reach — notes circulated primarily within the issuing province.
The reales de vellón denomination places this firmly in the pre-peseta monetary system, discontinued when Spain decimalized in 1868. A note dated 1861 would have had only seven years of legal life before its unit of account ceased to exist.