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2 Reales Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Entre-Riano |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Value | 2 Reales Bolivianos |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided note printed in green on pale paper. The bank title BANCO ENTRE-RIANO appears in large bold letterpress across the upper centre, flanked by decorative guilloche ornaments, with the denomination numeral '2' in large format at both left and right margins. The lower portion carries the promise-to-pay text in Spanish, with the place and date of issue — Concepción del Uruguay, Mayo 1 de 1866 — inscribed at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE POR 2 REALES BOLIVIANOS BANCO ENTRE-RIANO pague al portador y a la vista CUATRO REALES BOLIVIANOS por DOS Reales en billetes por el Banco Concepcion del Uruguay Mayo 1 de 1866 |
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The Banco Entre-Riano was a provincial Argentine bank operating in Entre Ríos province, and its 1866 issues denominated in reales bolivianos reflect a genuinely complicated monetary situation: the province was using a foreign currency unit — the Bolivian real — as its reference standard at a time when Argentina had no unified national currency. The Confederation had collapsed, Buenos Aires had only recently reintegrated, and provincial banks were issuing their own paper largely unchecked by any central authority.
Specimens and remainders from Entre-Riano are exceedingly rare in any form. The bank's operational lifespan was brief, and documented circulation of its notes is poorly attested in Argentine monetary records.