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5 Pesos Boliviano
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan - Sucursal (Branch) San Juan |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos Boliviano |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark ink on aged paper, with the bank title 'EL BANCO DE SAN JUAN' in the upper central area accompanied by branch and authorization text below. A small architectural or monumental vignette appears at the lower left, while the numeral '5' is rendered in large script at the upper left. The top and bottom borders carry repeated denomination inscriptions 'CINCO PESOS' interspersed with ornamental numeral devices, and a manuscript serial number is visible in the left field. |
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| Obverse lettering | CINCO PESOS EL BANCO DE SAN JUAN SUCURSAL DE SAN JUAN CINCO PESOS |
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The Banco de San Juan was one of several provincial Argentine banks chartered in the early 1870s under national legislation that briefly allowed provinces to issue their own paper currency. San Juan's banking history was precarious — the province was economically marginal, heavily dependent on mining and viticulture, and the branch structure reflected an attempt to extend paper money credibility into a region where coin remained the preferred medium.
PS#1868 places this within the specialized South American provincial issues catalogued by Pick — a category where surviving examples are genuinely rare, since most provincial Argentine banks collapsed or were absorbed following the 1890 Baring Crisis and subsequent monetary consolidation under the Banco Nacional.
Cotton substrate was typical for Argentine provincial issues of the period, sourced largely from imported stock.