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2 Pesos Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Brown note with the bank title EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ arched across the upper field. A central vignette shows a seated allegorical female figure attended by a lion, flanked on either side by the numeral 2 in ornate oval cartouches. A circular guilloche medallion bearing a coat of arms appears at the lower left, with the denomination DOS PESOS PLATA BOLIVIANA in bold letterpress across the centre. The place name Rosario and date Enero 1 de 1875 are manuscript-inscribed in the upper portion, with Serie A and a manuscript serial number to the left, and two signature lines at the lower centre above the imprint BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ. |
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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° |
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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.