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4 Reales Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Solanas y Cía. |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown and black note with a central vignette of a rearing horse set against a landscape background, positioned to the right of centre. The issuer's name is printed in large bold letters across the middle band. Numerals '4' appear in the upper corners within decorative frames, and a repetitive guilloche border inscription runs along the top and bottom margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO SOLANAS y Cía. Pagará á la vista UN PESO plata Boliviana al portador de DOS de estos billetes Gualeguay, Agosto 1. 1874 CUATROCUATROCUATROCUATROCUATROCUATROCUATRO |
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Banco Solanas y Cía. was one of the short-lived private banks operating in Bolivia during the brief free-banking period of the 1870s, before the government moved to consolidate and restrict note-issuing privileges. These provincial private emissions were rarely trusted far beyond their immediate locality, and redemption in silver — the plata boliviana the denomination explicitly promised — was never guaranteed in practice.
The PS prefix in the Pick catalog places this firmly in the Specialized volume's South American private bank section. Survivors are rare; most notes from Bolivian private issuers of this period were either redeemed and destroyed or simply abandoned when the issuing house folded.