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2 Reales Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Paraná |
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| Year | 1868 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in purple-brown on plain paper with an ornate border of repeated numeral '2' elements. To the left, a classical female vignette seated with a balance scale and a sailing ship in the background. To the right, a vignette of a capybara resting in a natural setting. The central panel carries the bank name and denomination within a circular guilloche medallion, with the place and date of issue, promise-to-pay text, and a manuscript signature below. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO PARANÁ DOS REALES 2 DOS REALES BOLIVIANOS PARANÁ, 1º DE ABRIL DE 1868 Pagará á la vista de DOS de estos billetes El Banco Paraná CUATRO REALES bolivianos ó su equivalente Por el Banco: |
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The Banco Paraná was one of several provincial Argentine banks that briefly flourished under the permissive banking legislation of the 1860s before federal consolidation eventually killed off most of them. This note, denominated in Bolivian reales rather than Argentine pesos, reflects the commercial reality of the Mesopotamian region — cross-border trade with Bolivia and Paraguay made mixed-currency accounting genuinely practical, not exotic.
The PS prefix in the reference confirms this as a South American state or private bank issue catalogued by Cuhaj outside the main Pick sequence. Documentation on Banco Paraná notes is thin, and surviving examples are rare enough that auction appearances are infrequent.