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50 Centavos Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Córdoba |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos Bolivianos |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central vignette of a bull standing in a pastoral landscape, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. A guilloche border frames the note on all sides, with repeated '50' numerals along the top and lateral margins. The issuer's name 'EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE CÓRDOBA' appears in bold letterpress across the upper register, with the place and date 'CÓRDOBA, Marzo 21 de 1873' at centre-left, series letter 'D' to the right, and the denomination 'CINCUENTA CENTAVOS' in large letters along the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO PROVINCIAL DE CÓRDOBA PAGARÁ A LA VISTA UN PESO 7/8 AL PORTADOR, DE DOS DE ESTOS BILLETES CÓRDOBA Marzo 21 de 1873 Serie D. CINCUENTA CENTAVOS TESORERO PRESIDENTE 50 CENTAVOS |
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The Banco Provincial de Córdoba was a provincial institution operating under Argentina's pre-centralization banking order, when individual provinces retained the right to charter their own note-issuing banks. That arrangement collapsed with the National Banking Law reforms of the 1880s and the eventual monopoly granted to the Banco de la Nación Argentina in 1891 — making all provincial fractional notes like this one obsolete well before most had seen heavy use.
The centavos bolivianos denomination is the detail worth pausing on. Bolivia's currency was the functional unit of account across much of the Argentine northwest in this period, reflecting trade patterns that predated the republic itself. A Córdoba bank issuing fractional notes denominated in bolivianos tells you more about regional commerce in 1873 than any administrative document could.