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4 Reales Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Córdoba |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The face of this Argentine provincial note is printed in blue on plain paper, with the bank title EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE CÓRDOBA arched across the upper register in bold letterpress. A central vignette presents a recumbent bull to the right, framed by guilloche ornamental borders and corner medallions bearing the numeral 4. The lower portion carries the printed denomination CUATRO REALES BOLIVIANOS alongside a serial number, with a manuscript signature of the issuing official below. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE CÓRDOBA Córdoba, Marzo 27 de 1873 Serie 9 PAGARÁ A LA VISTA CUATRO REALES BOLIVIANOS UN PESO BOLIVIANO AL PORTADOR DE DOS DE ESTOS BILLETES 4 CUATRO 4 |
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The Banco Provincial de Córdoba was a provincial institution operating under Argentina's pre-centralized banking regime, when individual provinces still chartered their own note-issuing banks. That arrangement ended decisively with the 1890 financial crisis and the subsequent creation of the Caja de Conversión, but in 1873 Córdoba retained full authority to emit its own currency.
The reales bolivianos denomination is a telling detail — Bolivia's silver real remained a common unit of account in the Argentine interior long after Buenos Aires had drifted toward peso reckoning, reflecting the commercial gravity that trade routes through the altiplano still exerted on Cuyo and the northwest. A Córdoban bank denominating notes in reales bolivianos was following commercial habit, not monetary policy.