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4 Reales Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Paraná |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red-orange on cream paper, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate interlocking guilloche rosette at centre bearing the bold denomination REALES. The bank name EL BANCO ARGENTINO is split across the upper and lower arcs surrounding the central device. Four oval medallions with anchor and star motifs are symmetrically arranged around the central rosette, flanked by corner ornaments of geometric lathe-work. The printer's imprint American Bank Note Co. New York appears in small lettering along both the top and bottom margins. |
| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO ARGENTINO REALES American Bank Note Co. New York |
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Banco Argentino operated out of Paraná, the capital of Entre Ríos province, during the brief window of relative provincial banking autonomy before Argentina's 1890s financial collapse centralized the system. The denomination — reales plata boliviana — reflects how thoroughly Bolivian silver coinage had penetrated the riverine trade economy of the Río de la Plata interior, to the point where a bank in Argentina denominated its paper in foreign specie units rather than pesos.
ABNC engraved and printed the series in New York, a common arrangement for South American provincial institutions that lacked access to domestic security printing of equivalent quality. The PS prefix in the Pick catalogue signals provincial or state-chartered status — this was not a note of the Argentine national banking framework.