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200 Reales de Vellón Banco de La Coruña
| Issuer | Banco de La Coruña |
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| Year | 1857 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | A central intaglio vignette portrays a lighthouse tower surrounded by three sailing vessels at sea, enclosed within an elaborate floral and foliate wreath border; the bank title BANCO DE LA CORUÑA appears in large ornate lettering within the upper arc of the wreath, flanked by serial-number cartouches. Denomination panels reading 200 r/s are positioned at lower left and right, while a cursive promise-to-pay clause runs across the central field. Four signature lines for the Comisario Regio, Director, Vice-Presidente, and Cajero are present at both the upper and lower margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE LA CORUÑA El Banco de la Coruña pagará al portador Doscientos reales vellon en efectivo 200 r/s CORUÑA 200 r/s CORUÑA ... DE ... DE 18... EL COMISARIO REGIO / EL DIRECTOR / EL VICEPRESIDENTE / EL CAJERO (Translation: Bank of A Coruña The Banco de la Coruña will pay the bearer Two hundred reales vellon in cash 200 r/s Coruña 200 r/s Coruña... of... of 18... The Royal Commissioner / The Director / The Vice President / The Cashier) |
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The Banco de La Coruña was one of Spain's short-lived provincial banks authorized under the 1856 banking reform law, which briefly allowed regional institutions to issue their own notes before the Banco de España gradually absorbed that privilege over the following decades. La Coruña's operation was modest — a port city with real commercial activity but nothing approaching the capital volumes of Madrid or Barcelona — and its notes circulated in a correspondingly tight geographic radius.
Surviving examples from this issuer are genuinely uncommon. The bank's total lifespan was brief, redemption records incomplete, and provincial Spanish notes of this period were not systematically collected until well into the twentieth century.