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4000 Reales de Vellón Banco de Málaga
| Issuer | Banco de Málaga |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and brown, with a large numeral '4000' occupying the centre, set within overlapping oval guilloche medallions in brown. An elaborate blue geometric framework of interlocking arcs and fine lathe-work surrounds the central motif, with 'REALES' and 'VELLON' inscribed in rectangular cartouches to the left and right respectively, and the bank name running along the outer border. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO de MALAGA 4000 REALES VELLON (Translation: Bank of Málaga 4000 Reales Vellon) |
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The Banco de Málaga was one of Spain's short-lived provincial banks chartered under the 1856 banking law, which briefly allowed regional institutions to issue their own notes. That window closed fast: the Banco de España absorbed most provincial issuers by 1874, and the Málaga bank's circulation was always geographically confined to the province. Notes of this denomination were high-value instruments — 4000 reales de vellón was serious money in mid-nineteenth-century Andalusia — meaning few circulated heavily and fewer still survived outside institutional holdings.
Pick S336 is scarce. The "S" prefix in Pick's classification signals its status as a regional Spanish issue, catalogued separately from the central bank series.