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5 Pesos Moneda Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco del Río de La Plata, Gualeguay |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Light blue note with a central text-based layout typical of mid-19th-century Argentine provincial issues. The upper portion carries the denomination numeral '5' at both corners and the header 'CINCO PESOS BOLIVIANOS' in a guilloche band, below which 'PROVINCIA DE ENTRERIOS' and 'CINCO PESOS' appear in bold letterpress. The body of the note bears the full promise-to-pay text in Spanish, referencing 'El Banco del Rio de la Plata' and the place of issue 'GUALEGUAY', dated 15 de Diciembre 1868, with two manuscript signatures of the Contador and the Gerente at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse with no printed design, consistent with the simple production standards of Argentine provincial quasi-fiscal notes of the 1860s. |
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The Banco del Río de La Plata was one of several provincial Argentine banks chartered during the 1860s under Entre Ríos provincial authority, operating out of Gualeguay — a river port town on the Río Gualeguay whose commercial importance derived almost entirely from the hide and wool trade. These banks issued their own circulating notes largely because Buenos Aires-controlled national currency was chronically scarce in the interior provinces.
The PS prefix in the Pick reference places this firmly in the speculative or semi-official category — the bank's operating history was short and its redemption record unreliable. Notes from Gualeguay-based issuers of this period rarely survived circulation intact, let alone the bank failures that followed Argentina's provincial banking consolidation in the early 1870s.