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4 Reales
| Issuer | Banco Paraná |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Value | 4 Reales |
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| Obverse description | Brown-tinted note with a border composed of repeated CUATRO REALES text on all four sides. The central vignette presents a seated allegorical female figure in a pastoral scene with a standing sheep to her left; a circular guilloche medallion bearing the numeral 4 appears at the lower right. The issuer's name BANCO PARANA is set in large bold letterpress across the upper portion, with the date and place of issue above the promise-to-pay text and a manuscript signature below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is uniface, presenting a plain, uninscribed cream-coloured surface with no vignettes, guilloche work, or printed text, consistent with the austere production standards of provincial Argentine note issues of the 1860s. |
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Banco Paraná was one of several provincial Argentine banks that issued currency during the brief window of federally tolerated private note issuance in the 1860s. The Entre Ríos province had its own turbulent monetary history — caudillo-era finance rarely produced stable institutions — and Banco Paraná itself was short-lived, which directly limits the survival rate of its notes across all denominations.
The 4 Reales denomination places this squarely in the transitional period before Argentina's decimal peso system fully displaced the old real-based accounting. By 1868, the real was already anachronistic in much of the country.