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50 Pesos Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Concordia |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Printer | Compañía Sudamericana de Billetes de Banco |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio note with a central pastoral vignette of sheep and a shepherd in a landscape, flanked by the numeral '50' in ornate panels on either side. Two female portrait vignettes appear at the lower left and right corners, rendered in fine engraved style. The upper portion carries the bank title 'EL BANCO ARGENTINO' and the legend 'PAGARÁ A LA VISTA', with the denomination 'CINCUENTA PESOS' inscribed below the central vignette, the date '1 de Julio de 1873', and the place of issue 'Concordia'; a handwritten serial number appears in red. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO ARGENTINO PAGARÁ A LA VISTA CINCUENTA PESOS plata boliviana o su equivalente en moneda de ley Concordia 1 de Julio de 1873 PESOS 50 EL GERENTE EL PRESIDENTE |
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The Banco Argentino of Concordia was one of dozens of provincial Argentine banks that issued their own paper currency under the permissive banking legislation of the early 1870s — a period that ended abruptly with the national government's 1876 decision to prohibit private bank note issuance. Notes from this bank are scarce precisely because the window of legal circulation was so short.
The Compañía Sudamericana de Billetes de Banco, established in Buenos Aires in 1872, was the first banknote printing house operating on South American soil, and this note is among its earliest productions. The denomination in "Pesos Plata Boliviana" reflects the persistence of Bolivian silver coinage as a de facto monetary unit in the Littoral provinces, long after formal Argentine peso systems were in place.