Catalog
2 Reales
| Issuer | Banco de Londres y Río de La Plata, Córdoba |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Value | 2 Reales |
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| Obverse description | The upper register carries the bank title BANCO DE LONDRES Y RIO DE LA PLATA in bold letterpress, flanked at the left by a rooster vignette and at the lower left by a large numeral 2 set within an ornate guilloche oval. A central text panel, rendered in cursive script, bears the promise-to-pay clause and the date Córdoba, 15 de Noviembre de 1869, with the denomination VALE POR DOS REALES enclosed in a framed cartouche. Repeated DOS REALES inscriptions appear within decorative guilloche panels along the right and lower borders, and a manuscript signature is present beneath the payment clause. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE LONDRES Y RIO DE LA PLATA VALE POR DOS REALES Pagaremos a la vista UN PESO boliviano en efectivo o su equivalente en moneda de ley al portador de Cuatro de estos vales. Córdoba, 15 de Noviembre de 1869 Por el Banco DOS REALES |
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The Banco de Londres y Río de la Plata was the Argentine subsidiary of the London and River Plate Bank, incorporated in London in 1862 and one of the first foreign commercial banks to issue provincial notes in Argentina. The Córdoba branch operated under provincial concession, which is why this note carries regional rather than national authority — Argentina's banking system in the 1860s remained fragmented along provincial lines, with no central bank to impose uniformity.
Two reales denominations in this series are genuinely scarce survivors. The branch closed its note-issuing operations well before the National Bank Law of 1887 forced consolidation.