1000 Reales de Vellón Banco de Cádiz

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.