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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 description | The upper portion bears the bank title in large serif lettering flanked by ornate foliate borders, with two oval denomination cartouches reading '4000 Rs. Vn.' positioned symmetrically at upper left and right. A central vignette presents Hercules seated between two lions with classical columns behind him, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The lower half carries the bearer clause in large guilloche script lettering, with four signature lines for the Comisario Regio, Director, Interventor, and Cajero, and the serial number appearing twice across the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE CADIZ SON 4000 Rs. Von. El Banco tiene a disposición del portador CUATRO MIL REALES VELLÓN en efectivo EL COMISARIO REGIO / EL DIRECTOR / EL INTERVENTOR / EL CAJERO (Translation: Bank of Cádiz It`s 4000 Rs. Von. The Bank has at the disposal of the bearer Four Thousand Reales Vellón in cash The Royal Commissioner / The Director / The Controller / The Cashier) |
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The Banco de Cádiz was one of Spain's earliest provincial banks of issue, established in 1846 under the commercial banking legislation that briefly decentralized note-issuing authority before Madrid reasserted control. It survived barely a decade before being absorbed into the Banco de España's expanding monopoly. Notes of this denomination — 4000 reales de vellón, a substantial sum — would have circulated almost entirely within commercial and mercantile networks in Cádiz, then still one of Spain's busiest Atlantic ports.
Provincial Spanish issues of this period are genuinely rare survivors. Most were redeemed or destroyed when the issuing banks were wound up.