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2000 Reales de Vellón Banco de Málaga
| Issuer | Banco de Málaga |
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| Year | 1860 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned note printed by intaglio, centred around a classical allegorical vignette of a seated female figure beside the sea, accompanied by a cornucopia overflowing with fruits at her side and a sailing vessel visible in the background. The bank title and denomination are set within ornamental cartouches, with the full text of the bearer obligation arranged in horizontal lines across the lower portion of the note. The overall layout is characteristic of mid-19th century Perkins, Bacon engraving style, with fine line-work borders framing the composition. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, appearing as plain paper with show-through of the obverse intaglio impression visible under raking light, consistent with the single-sided printing practice common to Spanish provincial bank issues of the mid-19th century. |
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The Banco de Málaga was one of Spain's provincial issuing banks created under the 1856 banking legislation that briefly allowed regional institutions to circulate their own notes. It was a short-lived experiment — the Banco de España absorbed most of these provincial banks in 1874, ending their right of issue. The Málaga bank's notes were never produced in large quantities, and few survived the consolidation.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch brought their intaglio security printing expertise to several Spanish provincial banks during this period. The reales de vellón denomination itself was already becoming obsolete by 1860, with Spain's decimal peseta system just years away.