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1000 Reales de Vellón Banco de La Coruña
| Issuer | Banco de La Coruña |
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| Year | 1857 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a tower serving as a lighthouse with three sailing vessels at sea, framed by upper and left margin matrices with typeset text. The denomination "1000" appears at left and right, flanking the main text block, which includes spaces for manuscript date entries and four signature lines designating the Comisario Regio, Director, Vicepresidente, and Cajero. The overall layout follows the letterpress style typical of mid-nineteenth-century Spanish provincial bank issues. |
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| Reverse description | Largely plain reverse with the obverse design showing through as a ghost impression, including the lighthouse tower vignette and circular guilloche elements visible by transparency through the thin paper. The reverse itself carries no printed text or additional design elements. |
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The Banco de La Coruña was one of a clutch of provincial Spanish banks authorized under the 1856 banking law, which briefly permitted regional note-issuing institutions before the Banco de España absorbed that privilege entirely. This note predates that consolidation by roughly two decades — most provincial issues were demonetized and recalled when the Banco de España's monopoly was formalized in 1874.
Survivors are rare precisely because recall was thorough in Galicia. The reales de vellón denomination itself was already an anachronism by 1857, Spain having nominally adopted the escudo system in 1864 — meaning this note's unit of account was phased out within a few years of printing.