Catalog
2 Reales Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan - Sucursal (Branch) Catamarca |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | LA SUCURSAL DEL BANCO DE SAN JUAN EN CATAMARCA Pagará á la vista al Portador DOS REALES PLATA CORRIENTE BOLIVIANA en moneda corriente en esta Provincia. Catamarca 1º de Julio de 1875 MUESTRA Guillermo Kraft Reconquista 72 B. Aires |
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Banco de San Juan operated out of the Argentine province of San Juan, and by the mid-1870s it had extended branch operations into Catamarca — a neighboring province with its own commercial needs but no issuing bank of its own. This note is a product of that arrangement. Guillermo Kraft, the Buenos Aires printer responsible for much of the era's provincial banking paper in Argentina, produced the series.
The denomination in Reales Bolivianos reflects how deeply Bolivian coinage had penetrated northwestern Argentine commerce. The unit wasn't a quirk — it was the practical currency of the region's trade networks.