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4 Reales Bolivianos
| Issuer | Oxandaburu y Garbino |
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| Year | 1867 |
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| Value | 4 Reales Bolivianos |
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| Obverse description | Red-on-white note with a central oval vignette of a bull's head, flanked by the large bold text CUATRO REALES on either side. The issuer's name OXANDABURU Y GARVINO is inscribed in ornate script across the upper portion, with the denomination 4 REALES BOLIVIANOS in large numerals and text below the vignette. A guilloche border frames the note, with the date and place of issue GUALEGUAYCHÚ, DICIEMBRE 1 DE 1867 along the lower margin and a vertical overprint on the left stub reading the same information. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially the mirror impression of the obverse printing showing through the thin paper stock, with no independent design elements; a vertical stub at the right edge carries text corresponding to the left stub of the obverse. |
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Oxandaburu y Garvino was a commercial house operating out of Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos, and this note is among the more unusual private emission instruments to survive from the Río de la Plata region. The denomination in Bolivian reales is not an accident — cross-border trade along the Uruguay River routinely relied on Bolivian silver coinage as a common medium, and private merchants occasionally issued scrip pegged to it rather than to the unstable Argentine provincial currencies of the period.
Provincial private banknote issues from Entre Ríos in the 1860s were rarely printed in large quantities and saw hard use in tight local circuits. Few survived.