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1000 Reales de Vellón Banco de Sevilla
| Issuer | Banco de Sevilla |
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| Year | 1857 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | An intaglio vignette at the left depicts a reclining allegorical river deity — a male figure with long hair holding an oar — set against a background including the Torre del Oro of Seville. The centre of the note carries the issuer's name in a heavy oval cartouche over a pink guilloche underprint, with the bearer promise and denomination rendered in italic script and bold letterpress respectively. Three signature lines for Comisario Regio, Director and Cajero appear at the foot, flanked by the face value in vertical letterpress on the right margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1000 BANCO DE SEVILLA (Translation: Bank of Seville) |
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The Banco de Sevilla was one of several regional Spanish banks granted limited note-issuing rights under the 1856 banking law — a brief experiment in decentralized credit that lasted barely a decade before the Banco de España absorbed the provincial banks' issuing privileges in 1874. The Sevilla bank was among the more active issuers in Andalusia, but its notes circulated almost entirely within the province, and redemption was theoretically guaranteed only at its Seville office.
At 1000 reales de vellón, this is the highest denomination in the series. Survival rate for high-denomination provincial Spanish notes from this period is extremely low; most were redeemed, cancelled, and pulped during the consolidation process.