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5 Pesos Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Paraná |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos Bolivianos |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in reddish-brown on cream paper, with the bank name BANCO PARANÁ running vertically along the left margin. A central vignette presents a pastoral scene with cattle in a field, enclosed within a ruled border. The denomination CINCO PESOS and the date 1 DE ABRIL 1868 appear in letterpress, with a manuscript signature of the bank officer at lower right and a serial number and series letter at upper center. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is largely unprinted, consisting of plain cream paper with no vignette or text, showing significant age-related staining and wear consistent with prolonged circulation. |
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Banco Paraná was one of several provincial Argentine banks chartered during the 1860s under a loose federal banking framework that gave individual provinces broad authority to issue their own currency. The resulting proliferation of competing notes — often poorly backed and circulating at steep discounts outside their home province — contributed directly to the banking reform debates that consumed Argentine fiscal policy through the 1870s and beyond.
PS#1817 is a scarce entry in the South American provincial series. Banco Paraná's issues from this period are thinly documented, and surviving examples rarely appear at auction.