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5 Pesos Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Comercial de Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos Plata Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green and black, the obverse centres on a vignette of a rearing horse set against a background with a steam locomotive and train cars, flanked by two guilloche numeral medallions each bearing the value '5'. To the lower left, an anchor and cannon underprint vignette appears, while to the lower right an oval-framed portrait of a young woman in three-quarter view completes the decorative field. The issuer's title 'BANCO COMERCIAL DE SANTA FE' runs across the upper register in bold letterpress, with 'CINCO PESOS' and a manuscript date of 2 January 1869 inscribed in the central text panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO COMERCIAL CINCO DE SANTA FE Compañía Americana de Billetes de Banco Nueva York |
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The Banco Comercial de Santa Fé operated in Argentina's Santa Fe province during a period when provincial banks held the effective right to issue currency — a situation that persisted until federal monetary consolidation gradually eliminated competing issuers through the 1880s and 1890s. This note predates that reckoning by two decades.
ABNC produced the plate in New York, as was routine for Argentine provincial issuers who lacked domestic printing infrastructure capable of the intaglio work required to deter counterfeiting. The denomination in pesos plata boliviana reflects a regional unit of account still common in the Río de la Plata interior at the time, distinct from the peso fuerte used in Buenos Aires.