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4 Reales Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Oxandaburu y Garbino |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Value | 4 Reales |
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| Obverse lettering | El Banco Oxandaburu y Garbino Gualeguaychu, 2 Enero de 1869. Pagará al portador y á la vista Cuatro Reales Bolivianos ó su equivalente en moneda legal. Por el Banco (Translation: The Oxandaburu and Garbino Bank Gualeguaychú, 2 January 1869. Will pay to the bearer on demand Four Bolivian Reales or its equivalent in legal tender. For the Bank) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially unprinted, with show-through of the obverse design visible through the thin paper stock. A large brown letterpress overprint of the word "CUATRO" in bold block serif letters occupies the lower centre, while faint impressions of the obverse guilloche medallions and central vignette are discernible as ink strike-through from the face. |
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Banco Oxandaburu y Garbino was a private commercial bank operating out of Potosí — a city whose silver-mining wealth had already peaked by the 1860s, leaving the region economically marginal relative to Bolivia's emerging financial centers. The bank's note-issuing life was brief, and this 4 Reales Bolivianos denomination is among the scarcer survivors from what was a limited original issue.
The American Bank Note Company's involvement is the one reliably interesting technical fact: ABNC New York plates of this period are identifiable by their distinctive lathe-work guilloche borders, a security feature that Bolivian authorities could not replicate locally.