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2 Reales Bolivianos
| Issuer | Miguel Lanieri, Victoria |
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| Year | 1871 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown ink on plain paper. At upper centre, a vignette of a riverboat is set within a decorative frame, flanked by the denomination numeral '2' on both sides. To the left, a circular guilloche border encloses an equestrian vignette of a rider on horseback. The central panel carries the main legend and promise-to-pay text, with the date and place of issue ruled along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | DOS REALES BOLIVIANOS Vale Por 2 DOS REALES BOLs. PAGARÉ AL PORTADOR CUATRO REALES BOLIVIANOS por DOS de estos vales á la vista. VICTORIA NOVIEMBRE 1° 1871 |
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Miguel Lanieri was a private merchant or commercial house operating in Victoria, Bolivia — one of dozens of quasi-banking entities that issued their own paper obligations during the 1860s and 1870s in the absence of any formal national banking system. Bolivia would not establish its first chartered bank until 1871 (Banco Nacional de Bolivia), and even then, private commercial paper continued to circulate locally long afterward.
PS references in the South American section typically denote privately issued scrip rather than state-guaranteed currency. Whether this note was redeemable in coin on demand or represented a deferred commercial credit is not established in the surviving record.