4 Reales Moneda Boliviana

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.