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2 Reales Moneda Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco de Mendoza |
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| Year | 1877 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1750 |
| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in a reddish-brown tone on light paper, with the bank title 'EL BANCO DE MENDOZA' arched across the upper field and the denomination 'DOS REALES' repeated in the top and bottom borders. At left, an allegorical female figure seated with a sword and cornucopia, accompanied by a small child figure at her feet, rendered in a fine line-engraved vignette. A large guilloche rosette to the right frames the numeral '2', with the text 'DOS REALES BOLIVIANOS' and a promise-to-pay legend in script reading 'Pagará al portador y a la vista DOS REALES moneda boliviana o su equivalente en moneda de ley', dated 'Enero 1º de 1877' and signed 'Por El Banco'. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE MENDOZA DOS REALES DOS REALES BOLIVIANOS 2 Pagará al portador y a la vista DOS REALES moneda boliviana o su equivalente en moneda de ley Enero 1º de 1877 Por El Banco |
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The Banco de Mendoza operated under a brief provincial banking window opened by Argentine law in the 1870s, before the national government progressively tightened control over note-issuing privileges. This 2 Reales denomination is denominated in Bolivian currency — reales moneda boliviana — which reflects the commercial reality of Mendoza at the time: the province sat along the trans-Andean trade corridor, and Bolivian coinage circulated widely enough that local banks had to acknowledge it in their paper.
J.B. Simón printed from Buenos Aires, a modest commercial press rather than one of the major security printers. The PS#1750 reference places this among the rarest surviving pieces of Cuyo regional banking history.