4 Reales Bolivianos

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.