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5 Pesos Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Paraná |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central oval vignette of a bull standing in a rural landscape, flanked by the numeral '5' within ornate guilloche medallions at upper left and right. A seated female allegorical figure appears at lower left and another at lower right, framing the bold letterpress legend 'EL BANCO ARGENTINO' across the centre. The denomination inscription 'CINCO PESOS plata boliviana' and the redemption clause 'ó su equivalente en moneda de ley' appear below the bank name, with the place name 'Paraná' and a handwritten date at upper left. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO ARGENTINO Pagará á la vista CINCO PESOS plata boliviana ó su equivalente en moneda de ley Paraná EL GERENTE EL PRESIDENTE CINCO |
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The Banco Argentino operated out of Paraná, capital of Entre Ríos province, during the chaotic early years of Argentine provincial banking — a period when individual provinces still issued their own currency with minimal federal oversight. The denomination in "Pesos Plata Boliviana" is the telling detail here: Bolivian silver coinage was so prevalent in the northern Argentine provinces during the mid-nineteenth century that it functioned as a de facto standard, and banks denominated paper obligations in it as a matter of commercial practicality rather than political alignment.
PS#1500 is rare enough that documented surviving examples are few, which makes condition assessment difficult to generalize. The bank itself was short-lived, folded into the broader collapse of provincial banking that preceded Argentina's 1890 financial crisis by nearly two decades.