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4 Reales Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Paraná |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Value | 4 Reales Plata Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on cream paper with a fine guilloche underprint. The upper register bears the bank title EL BANCO ARGENTINO in bold letterpress, with the numeral 4 in each upper corner and the series letter and serial number flanking a central vignette of a reclining dog beside a safe. Two allegorical female figures in classical dress occupy the left and right lateral vignettes. The place of issue Paraná and the manuscript date 1 de Julio de 1873 appear in the central field, above the bold denomination inscription CUATRO REALES and the promise-to-pay text. A repeated micro-text border reading CUATRO runs along the bottom edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO ARGENTINO Serie A Paraná Pagamos a la vista y al portador CUATRO REALES Plata de la misma o su equivalente en moneda del rey 4 |
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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.