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2000 Reales de Vellón Banco de Zaragoza
| Issuer | Banco de Zaragoza |
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| Year | 1857 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-green and centres on a single large horizontal vignette composed of a shaped panel with concave sides, enclosing fine guilloche latticework and the denomination "DOS MIL" in bold serif capitals at centre, flanked on each side by circular medallions each bearing the numeral "2000". The remainder of the note surface is largely plain, with faint show-through from the obverse visible through the paper. |
| Reverse lettering | 2000 / DOS MIL / 2000 (Translation: 2000 / Two Thousand / 2000) |
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The Banco de Zaragoza was one of the provincial banks established under Spain's 1856 banking legislation, which briefly allowed regional institutions to issue their own notes before the Banco de España consolidated that privilege in 1874. The Zaragoza bank's notes circulated only within Aragon, and their window of legal issue was short — fewer than eighteen years separated authorization from forced withdrawal.
Reales de vellón, the denomination unit used here, were already an anachronism by 1857; the peseta system was being discussed at official levels, making this note a product of a denomination in its last decade of official use.