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4 Reales Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco del Río de La Plata |
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| Year | 1868 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents an oval vignette at left enclosing a classical female bust in three-quarter profile, her hair elaborately dressed and draped in classical robes. A serial number appears at upper centre, with the issuing authority inscribed as 'PROVINCIA DE ENTRE RIOS' and 'EL BANCO del Rio de la Plata' in bold letterpress. The note is dated Gualeguay, Octubre 3. de 1868, with the promise-to-pay text reading 'PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR Y A LA VISTA Un Peso Plata boliviana por Dos de estos billetes'; a manuscript signature appears at lower centre, with the denomination 'CUATRO REALES PLATA BOLIVIANOS' repeated in the side and top/bottom borders. |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE ENTRE RIOS EL BANCO del Rio de la Plata PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR Y A LA VISTA Un Peso Plata boliviana por Dos de estos billetes S.A. GUALEGUAY, Octubre 3. de 1868 Por el Banco CUATRO REALES PLATA BOLIVIANA |
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The Banco del Río de La Plata operated out of Buenos Aires and was among the private banks that briefly flourished in Argentina before federal banking consolidation squeezed most of them out in the 1870s and 1880s. The denomination itself — reales plata boliviana — reflects the monetary disorder of the period: Bolivia's silver coinage circulated so widely in the Argentine interior that some private issuers denominated paper in it directly, a practical concession to what people actually trusted and used.
PS# prefix places this in Krause's South American private and state issues. Surviving examples from this institution are genuinely uncommon.