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200 Reales de Vellón Banco de Málaga
| Issuer | Banco de Málaga |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Value | 200 Reales Vellon |
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| Obverse lettering | 200 REALES VELLON EL BANCO DE MALAGA pagará en efectivo al portador DOSCIENTOS REALES DE VELLON 200 Rs. Vn. (Translation: 200 Reales Vellon The Bank of Málaga will pay in cash to the bearer Two hundred Reales Vellon) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and brown, centered on a horizontal band of interlocking guilloche rosettes and lathe-work medallions arranged symmetrically around the large numeral '200' set within an ornate oval cartouche. A large blue oval guilloche underprint frames the entire composition, with the denomination panel flanked by the abbreviated legends 'REALES' and 'VELLON' on either side. A diagonal cancel stamp reading 'INUTILIZADO' is applied across the face of this example. |
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The Banco de Málaga was one of Spain's short-lived provincial banks of issue, chartered under the 1856 banking law that briefly permitted regional institutions to print their own currency. That experiment ended when the Banco de España was granted a national monopoly in 1874, at which point all outstanding provincial notes were called in and converted — a process that eliminated the vast majority of surviving examples through official redemption rather than simple wear.
Notes from the Málaga series are among the rarest of the provincial Spanish issues, reflecting both the bank's limited capitalization and the relatively underdeveloped commercial banking culture of Andalusia in the 1860s.