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2 Pesos Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ PAGARÁ A LA VISTA DOS PESOS PLATA BOLIVIANA o su equivalente en las monedas determinadas por la Ley Nacional Serie A AL INSPECTOR EL DIRECTORIO ROSARIO Enero 1 de 1875 BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ BOLIVAR 26, B°A° |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a sepia-brown tone and centres on a bold vignette of a bull's head facing front, set within a circular guilloche frame. Two large numeral 2 medallions with intricate lathe-work surrounds are positioned symmetrically to the left and right. The word SUCURSAL appears in each of the four corners, and the diagonal watermark-style inscription BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ is carried across the upper field within the design. |
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The Banco Provincial de Santa Fé was one of several Argentine provincial banks authorized to issue their own currency during the 1860s–70s, before the national government moved to consolidate monetary authority. These provincial issues circulated alongside — and sometimes in direct competition with — notes from Buenos Aires, creating a patchwork of regional paper money that confused commerce and invited arbitrage. The "Plata Boliviana" denomination is the telling detail here: it pegged the note's value to Bolivian silver rather than to a domestic standard, reflecting the practical reality of trade flows through the interior provinces.
Provincial Santa Fé notes from this period are genuinely scarce. The bank's operations were wound down ahead of the 1890 financial crisis that collapsed much of Argentina's banking sector, and surviving paper from the 1875 issues has thinned considerably.