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4 Reales Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Comercial de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1867 |
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| Value | 4 Reales Plata Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | Issued at Rosario on 1 May 1867, the note is printed in blue-green tones on light paper. At left, a standing classical female figure is depicted in a vignette; at center-right, an ornamental cartouche encloses what appears to be a coat of arms or allegorical scene. The denomination CUATRO REALES is rendered in large bold letters across the center, with the promise-to-pay text set in smaller letterpress type below the bank name. |
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| Reverse description | No second image provided; reverse description unavailable. |
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The "Plata Boliviana" denomination is the telling detail here. By the 1860s, Bolivian silver coinage — particularly the macuquina and the later republican eight-real pieces — circulated more freely in the Argentine interior provinces than domestic Argentine currency did. Santa Fé's commercial bank was effectively acknowledging that reality by anchoring its notes to Bolivian silver rather than to any Buenos Aires standard.
PS#1589 is among the earliest documented private bank issues from Santa Fé province, predating the national currency unification efforts that would eventually make such regional specie-referenced notes obsolete.