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4 1/2 Centavos Fuertes de Ley Nacional
| Issuer | Banco del Litoral |
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| Year | 1875 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by the issuer's name BANCO DEL LITORAL in bold serif lettering across the upper field, beneath which the legend RECONOCE ESTE BILLETE POR introduces the central denomination panel bearing MEDIO REAL in bold block capitals. The lower portion carries the continuation plata boliviana que pagará a la vista, the place and date of issue PARANÁ 1º de Febrero de 1875, and the fraction 1/2 repeated in each upper corner, with Series letter C at upper left and manuscript serial number and handwritten signatures completing the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE C BANCO DEL LITORAL RECONOCE ESTE BILLETE POR MEDIO REAL plata boliviana que pagará a la vista PARANÁ 1º de Febrero de 1875 1/2 |
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The Banco del Litoral was one of several provincial banks operating under Argentina's fragmented pre-1890 banking regime, before the Banca Nacional crisis and subsequent banking reforms swept most of them out of existence. A denomination of 4½ centavos fuertes is exceptionally unusual — fractional notes of this kind were typically emergency responses to acute small-coin shortages, and Entre Ríos province had chronic difficulties keeping low-denomination specie in circulation throughout the 1870s.
Printed locally in Paraná rather than sent abroad to a major security printer, which was itself a rarity for Argentine provincial issues of the period.