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1000 Reales de Vellón Banco de Cádiz
| Issuer | Banco de Cádiz |
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| Year | 1847 |
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| Value | 1000 Reales Vellon |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a classically rendered figure of Hercules seated between two lions and flanked by columns, executed in intaglio engraving. Two large guilloche-framed oval panels at left and right each carry the denomination numeral "1,000 Rs. Vn.", with serial numbers printed below in letterpress. The bank title "BANCO DE CADIZ" appears in ornate calligraphic lettering across the top, above the place and date line, with the bearer text and multiple manuscript signatures occupying the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE CADIZ LIQUIDACION BANCO DE CADIZ EN LIQUIDACION |
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The Banco de Cádiz was one of Spain's earliest provincial banks, chartered in 1846 as part of a brief liberalization of banking law that also produced similar institutions in Barcelona, Sevilla, and a handful of other commercial cities. It survived less than two decades before the 1856 banking reforms folded most provincial issuers into the expanding Banco de España framework. Notes from this bank are rare precisely because the window of issue was so narrow — the entire institution existed for under twenty years, and high-denomination paper like this 1000 Reales de Vellón would have circulated almost exclusively among merchants and wholesale traders, not the general public.