4000 Reales de Vellón Banco de Málaga

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.