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4 Reales Moneda Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco de Mendoza |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Value | 4 Reales Moneda Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | Dark intaglio-printed note with a central vignette of a gaucho standing beside a horse, flanked by two dark oval guilloche panels each bearing the numeral '4'. The bank title 'EL BANCO DE MENDOZA' is inscribed in large letters across the upper portion, with 'SERIE D.' to the upper right and a serial number in red at upper left. The lower register carries the promise-to-pay text and the date 'Mendoza, Julio 1° de 1876', all within a decorative border. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE MENDOZA CUATRO REALES |
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The Banco de Mendoza was a provincial institution operating under Argentina's pre-centralization banking regime, a period when individual provinces could charter their own note-issuing banks with minimal federal oversight. This arrangement collapsed after 1890, but in 1876 it was still functional — if perpetually strained. The denomination itself is an oddity: reales moneda boliviana circulated in the Cuyo region well into the 1870s due to persistent cross-border trade with Bolivia and Chile, long after Argentine federal currency had nominally standardized the peso.
PS#1751 is among the rarer provincial Argentine issues of this decade. Locally printed in Mendoza rather than contracted to a European security printer — unusual for the period.