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4000 Reales de Vellón Banco de Cádiz
| Issuer | Banco de Cádiz |
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| Year | 1847 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE CADIZ. SON 4,000 Rs.Von. SON 4,000 Rs.Von. Cádiz 1º de Dicbre. 1847 El Banco tiene a disposicion del portador CUATRO MIL REALES VELLON en efectivo Vº Bº El Comisario Regio Por el Banco El Director Sentado El Cajero |
| Reverse description | Reverse is largely plain paper with show-through of the obverse vignette visible. Several administrative cancellation and liquidation stamps have been applied, including a violet oval stamp reading BANCO DE CADIZ EN LIQUIDACION, a black rectangular stamp EN LIQUIDACION, and a red square stamp, along with handwritten annotations and manuscript signatures indicating the note was redeemed and processed through the bank's liquidation proceedings. |
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The Banco de Cádiz was one of Spain's earliest provincial banks of issue, chartered in 1846 under the banking legislation that briefly allowed regional institutions to circulate their own notes before the Banco de España eventually absorbed that privilege. This 4000 Reales de Vellón note dates to the bank's first full year of operation — a denomination pitched at the merchant class in a port city whose commercial wealth was still built on Atlantic trade.
The bank collapsed in 1874. Surviving notes from the 1847 series are genuinely rare; most were either redeemed or lost in the disorder surrounding the liquidation.