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100 Reales de Vellón Banco de Málaga
| Issuer | Banco de Málaga |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Currency | Real (decimalized, 1848-1873) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-tinted note printed by intaglio, centred on a vignette of a seated allegorical female figure beside the sea, a cornucopia overflowing with fruit at her side and a sailing vessel visible in the background. The bank title and denomination are set within a decorative letterpress border with guilloche ornaments framing the text block. Manuscript date and issuing details appear in the lower portion, left blank for completion at the time of issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE MALAGA SON 100 RvON. CIEN REALES VELLON en efectivo pagaderos al portador a presentación. Malaga ... de ... 18 ... (Translation: Bank of Málaga It`s 100 RvON. One hundred Reales Vellon in cash payable to bearer upon presentation. Malaga ... of ... of 18 ...) |
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The Banco de Málaga was one of a cluster of provincial Spanish banks granted limited note-issuing rights under the 1856 banking law, which briefly liberalized what had previously been a near-monopoly held by the Banco de España's predecessors. Most of these provincial institutions were absorbed or forced out of business by 1874, when the Banco de España was granted exclusive issuance rights across Spain — making the operational window for notes like this a narrow eighteen years at most.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch had been engraving intaglio security printing for colonial and provincial banks across multiple continents for decades by 1860. The choice of a London printer for a Málaga-issued note was entirely conventional for mid-century Spanish provincial banking, where domestic security printing infrastructure was inadequate for the task.