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20 Pesos Moneda Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco de Londres y Río de La Plata, Rosario |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into a left stub and a main body separated by a vertical perforation line. The stub carries the manuscript denomination '20 PESOS' and a handwritten date '15 de Noviembre 1869'. The main note body bears the bank title 'BANCO DE LONDRES Y RIO DE LA PLATA' in a central panel flanked by an oval portrait vignette of a bearded male figure at right, a lower-left intaglio vignette of a seated allegorical female figure with a sheaf of wheat, and intricately engraved guilloche borders with repeated '20' numerals at the corners; the text 'VALE POR VEINTE PESOS moneda boliviana' appears in manuscript-style script across the centre, with 'ROSARIO' inscribed at upper centre and 'SPECIMEN' perforated diagonally at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | VEINTE 20 |
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The Banco de Londres y Río de la Plata was a British-founded institution operating across Argentina and Uruguay from 1862, functioning more as a commercial trade bank than a central authority — its notes competed in a fragmented provincial currency environment where Rosario-branch issues circulated alongside those from Buenos Aires and other regional offices, each technically redeemable only at their issuing branch.
The American Bank Note Company produced this in New York. The denomination reads in *pesos moneda boliviana*, a unit then common in the Cuyo and northern Argentine interior due to heavy cross-border silver trade with Bolivia — its appearance on a British bank's Rosario branch note reflects exactly how tangled currency conventions were in the Río de la Plata region before Argentina unified its monetary system in the 1880s.