2000 Reales de Vellón Banco de Cádiz

The Banco de Cádiz was one of Spain's provincial emission banks established under the 1856 banking law, which briefly allowed regional institutions to issue their own notes before the Banco de España absorbed that privilege in 1874. Cádiz, as a major Atlantic port, had genuine commercial demand for high-denomination paper — 2000 reales de vellón was a substantial sum, roughly equivalent to several months' wages for a working tradesman.

Provincial Spanish notes of this period are scarce survivors. Many were redeemed or demonetized during the consolidation that followed the 1874 decree, and the Banco de Cádiz itself did not outlast that reform.