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50 Centavos Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Santa Fé, Rosario |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos Plata Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries the bold heading BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ across the upper portion, with large numeral 50 counters at the left and right. A central vignette presents a rearing horse before a landscape, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. At lower left is an oval guilloche medallion, and at lower right a vignette of a gaucho figure; the place and date of issue, ROSARIO and Enero 1° de 1875, appear in manuscript below the bank title, with two handwritten signatures for Inspector and Director at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FÉ SERIE B No. 77218 ROSARIO Enero 1° de 1875 Pagará a la vista CINCUENTA CENTAVOS PLATA BOLIVIANA Ó su equivalente en las monedas determinadas por la LEY NACIONAL EL INSPECTOR EL DIRECTORIO 50 CINCUENTA 50 |
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Banco Provincial de Santa-Fé operated out of Rosario, and this 50 Centavos note — payable in Plata Boliviana, the Bolivian silver peso that served as a de facto regional currency across the Río de la Plata interior — reflects how fractured Argentina's monetary geography remained well into the 1870s. Provincial banks issued their own paper, redeemable in whatever specie their region actually used, not necessarily Buenos Aires's preferred standard.
The American Bank Note Company printed both the Rosario (PS-811) and Santa Fé (PS-812) variants from what appears to be the same underlying plate, differentiated only by the place-of-issue text. A cataloger's distinction, but a commercially meaningful one at the time.