Catalog
4 Reales Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Entre-Riano |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided note printed in dark olive-black ink on plain paper. At centre, a bold letterpress text reads CUATRO REALES BOLIVIANOS, flanked by the bank's stylised script name El Banco Entre-Riano and the obligation text pagará al portador y a la vista. Corner numerals '4' appear in all four quadrants alongside small circular guilloche rosettes, and a small vignette with an animal figure occupies the left margin. The lower border carries the date and place of issue: CONCEPCION DEL URUGUAY, MAYO 15 DE 1866. |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE POR 4 REALES BOLIVIANOS Nº 1ª Serie El Banco Entre-Riano Pagará al portador y a la vista CUATRO REALES BOLIVIANOS por cada uno de estos Billetes por el Banco CONCEPCION DEL URUGUAY, MAYO 15 DE 1866 |
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Banco Entre-Riano was one of several provincial Argentine banks that briefly operated under the relatively permissive banking conditions of the 1860s, before federal consolidation began squeezing out regional note issuers. The denomination itself — reales bolivianos — reflects how thoroughly Bolivian silver coinage dominated commercial life in the interior provinces at mid-century, to the point where a bank in Entre Ríos denominated its paper in a foreign monetary unit simply because that was the currency its customers actually handled.
PS#1659 is among the rarer survivals from this bank's short operating period. No extensive circulation records have been located.