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| Uitgever | Banco de Palencia |
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| Jaar | 1864 |
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| Samenstelling | Paper |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | The upper portion carries the bank title «EL BANCO DE PALENCIA» in bold letterpress within an elaborate foliate vignette, flanked by the denomination numeral «4000» repeated at each corner. The crowned municipal coat of arms of Palencia occupies the central vignette, surrounded by intricate scrollwork. A horizontal guilloche panel at centre bears the words «CUATRO MIL» in bold relief, with the payable clause and date «Palencia, 1º de Mayo de 1864» below, and three signature lines for El Comisario Regio, El Director, and El Cajero at the foot; a vertical lattice-pattern matrix panel runs along the left margin. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Reverse is unprinted, showing only the faint impression of the obverse design through the paper, with the mirror-image text «CUATRO MIL» and the outline of the lateral guilloche matrix visible as a blind offset. |
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The Banco de Palencia was one of the short-lived provincial banks authorized under Spain's 1856 banking legislation, which briefly allowed regional institutions to issue their own notes before the Banco de España absorbed most of them following the 1874 decree establishing its monopoly on note issue. Palencia's bank had a particularly brief run, and high-denomination notes like this 4000 reales issue saw limited distribution in a province with modest commercial activity.
The reales de vellón unit itself was already being phased toward the escudo system by 1864, making this note something of a transitional artifact — issued in an old unit of account while monetary reform was already underway in Madrid.