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20 Pesos Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Santa Fé, Rosario |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Dark green intaglio-printed note with the bank title "BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ" arched across the top, flanked by numeral 20 counters at upper left and right within ornate guilloche frames. The central vignette presents a seated allegorical female figure with a shield, set against a pastoral landscape, while a lower-left vignette shows a gaucho on horseback and a portrait medallion of a military figure occupies the lower right. The place of issue "Rosario" and the date "1 Enero de 1875" appear in manuscript, with the denomination "VEINTE PESOS / PLATA BOLIVIANA" in bold letterpress across the centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ 20 |
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The Banco Provincial de Santa Fé was established in 1874 as a provincial institution attempting to assert financial independence from Buenos Aires in a period when Argentina's banking system was fragmented across competing provincial and national authorities. This note, payable at Rosario, reflects that geography — Rosario was the commercial hub of Santa Fé province and the more active trading port, even if Santa Fé held the political seat.
The denomination in Pesos Plata Boliviana is the detail worth pausing on. Bolivia's silver peso remained the dominant trade currency across the Argentine interior well into the 1870s, and provincial banks in the littoral region routinely denominated obligations in it rather than in the weaker and less trusted Argentine paper peso.
The PS-817A variant with "SANTA FÉ" as the place of issue confirms the two were issued in parallel for different circulation zones within the same province.