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4 Reales Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Santa Fé, Rosario |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Currency | Real (1813-1881) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA-FE Rosario CUATRO REALES moneda boliviana 4 POR EL DIRECTORIO |
| Reverse description | The reverse of this note has not been imaged; no description is available from the provided materials. |
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The Banco Provincial de Santa Fé was established in 1874 as a provincial institution operating under Argentine law that permitted individual provinces to charter their own banks of issue — a federalist arrangement that produced a patchwork of competing currencies across the republic before the Banco Nacional ultimately consolidated control. This note denominated in Reales Plata Boliviana is a direct artifact of that transitional monetary environment, where Bolivian silver coinage still functioned as a practical unit of account in the Litoral region despite Buenos Aires's own peso reckoning.
The Rosario branch distinction matters: PS-807 shares the same basic issue but specifies Santa Fé as the place of payment, making branch identification on surviving examples the key to correct cataloguing.