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4 Reales Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Domingo Garbino |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple-brown on plain paper, the obverse bears the bank title EL BANCO OXANDABURU Y GARBINO in an upper arc, with a central oval vignette of a standing figure, overlaid with a large handstamp reading BANCO DOMINGO GARBINO. The denomination numeral 4 appears in guilloche cartouches at each corner, with the written value CUATRO REALES BOLIVIANOS across the lower central panel. The place and date of issue, Gualeguaychu, 2 Enero de 1869, are inscribed in manuscript above the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO OXANDABURU Y GARBINO Gualeguaychu 2 Enero de 1869 BANCO DOMINGO GARBINO Pagará al portador y a la Vista CUATRO REALES BOLIVIANOS Su equivalente en moneda legal 4 |
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Banco Domingo Garbino was one of Bolivia's earliest private banking ventures, operating in an era when the national government had yet to establish any central monetary authority. The 4 Reales denomination is notable because it straddles two monetary systems — the real was already being displaced by the boliviano at this point, and notes denominated in reales were becoming anachronistic almost as soon as they were issued.
PS#1801 designation places this firmly in the Andean private bank series documented by Pick's specialized catalog. Survival rate is extremely low; Bolivian private bank paper from this decade is among the scarcest in South American notaphily, largely because most institutions failed before redemption infrastructure was ever established.