1000 Reales de Vellón Banco de Zaragoza

The Banco de Zaragoza was one of several provincial Spanish banks authorized under the 1856 banking law, which briefly opened note-issuing privileges beyond the Banco de España. That experiment ended in 1874 when the Restoration government forcibly consolidated all circulation rights under Madrid. Provincial notes like this one were called in and destroyed in quantity, which is why survivors across the entire 1856-era provincial series are genuinely uncommon.

No confirmed print run figures for this issue have entered the scholarly record. The 1000 Reales de Vellón denomination — reales being obsolete within a decade, replaced by the peseta in 1868 — gives this note an unusually short window of legitimate monetary relevance.