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4 Reales Moneda Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco de Mendoza |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE MENDOZA SERIE D. Pagará al portador y á la vista CUATRO REALES moneda boliviana, ó su equivalente en moneda de ley. Mendoza, Julio 1° de 1876 POR EL BANCO |
| Reverse description | Plain back printed in a single grey-green tone, with the four corners each bearing the numeral '4'. A large central circular guilloche medallion carries the inscriptions 'BANCO DE MENDOZA' and 'CUATRO REALES' around a small central vignette, all enclosed within a simple rectangular border. |
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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.