2 Patacones Sociedad de Cambios

The Sociedad de Cambios was a short-lived Bolivian exchange house rather than a formal bank, operating in an environment where the national government had not yet established a structured note-issuing institution. These private quasi-banking entities filled the vacuum left by chronic coin shortages in the 1850s, particularly in the altiplano trade centers.

The patacón was a colloquial unit tied to the old Spanish colonial peso fuerte — its continued use on private paper into the 1850s reflects how deeply colonial monetary habits persisted long after independence. No redemption records for this issuer are known to survive.