Catalog
20 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco Entre-Riano |
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| Year | 1864 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the bank title EL BANCO ENTRE-RIANO in bold uppercase lettering across the upper portion, with denomination numerals '20' in circular cartouches at each corner. A vignette to the left displays a bull's head facing right. The central text panel contains a promise-to-pay clause in Spanish script, with a large guilloche underprint numeral '20' in the centre. The lower margin carries the place and date inscription CONCEPCIÓN DEL URUGUAY 15 DE MARZO DE 1864. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO ENTRE-RIANO 20 CENTAVOS Paga al portador a la vista UNA ONZA de ORO sellada de su equivalente en la misma especie por OCHENTA de estos billetes POR EL BANCO CONCEPCIÓN DEL URUGUAY 15 DE MARZO DE 1864 |
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The Banco Entre-Riano was a provincial institution operating out of Concepción del Uruguay during a period when Argentine provincial banking was almost entirely unregulated — each province, and sometimes individual cities, issued their own currency with little federal oversight. The 1860s saw dozens of such banks chartered across the littoral provinces, many of them undercapitalized and short-lived.
At 20 centavos, this is the fractional end of the Entre-Riano series, the kind of denomination that actually circulated hard — used for small transactions, handled constantly, and rarely saved. Survival in any presentable condition is genuinely uncommon.