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2 Reales Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Córdoba |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown-tinted note with a central text block bearing the issuer's name in an arched serif legend at top, flanked by ornate guilloche borders. A small Argentine coat of arms vignette appears centrally between the promise-to-pay text lines. The large numeral '2' appears in relief on both left and right margins, with the place and date 'Córdoba, Marzo 21 de 1873' printed in the lower left, followed by a manuscript signature above the printed title 'Presidente'. |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE 8 / EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE CÓRDOBA / PAGARÁ A LA VISTA / UN PESO BOLIVIANO AL PORTADOR DE / CUATRO DE ESTOS BILLETES / DOS REALES BOLIVIANOS / CÓRDOBA, Marzo 21 de 1873 / Presidente |
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The Banco Provincial de Córdoba was one of several Argentine provincial banks that issued their own paper currency in the years before the Banco Nacional consolidated monetary authority in the 1880s. This 2 Reales Bolivianos denomination reflects the transitional monetary arithmetic of interior Argentina at the time — the real boliviano persisted as a unit of account in the Andean provinces long after Spanish colonial coinage had formally ceased, simply because that was what the market understood.
Provincial bank notes from Córdoba in this period are genuinely scarce survivors. Most circulated hard in a cash-poor interior economy and were redeemed or demonetized during the national banking reforms of the following decade.