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50 Pesos Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Provincial de Santa Fé, Santa Fé |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and blue on white stock. A central guilloche panel carries the large denomination numeral '50' in ornate lettering, with the text 'CINCUENTA PESOS / PLATA BOLIVIANA' across the middle. Upper centre presents a lively vignette of a gaucho on horseback pursuing cattle, flanked by corner lathe-work panels bearing '50' numerals. To the left stands a vignette of a Saint Bernard dog, and to the right an intaglio portrait of a uniformed male figure. The bank title 'BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FE' appears in bold letterpress across the upper portion, with place and date 'Santa Fé, Enero 1º de 1875' inscribed below. The word 'MUESTRA' (specimen) is overprinted twice in red. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FE |
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The Banco Provincial de Santa Fé was one of the provincial banks authorized under Argentina's pre-1890 free banking period, when individual provinces could charter their own note-issuing institutions without federal oversight. That arrangement collapsed spectacularly with the Baring Crisis of 1890, but in 1875 the bank was operating normally enough to commission ABNC for a full series of denominations.
The Rosario and Santa Fé variants of this series — same plates, different place-of-payment text — are catalogued separately precisely because circulation was regionally designated. PS-818A2 is the scarcer of the two; Santa Fé saw less commercial traffic than Rosario, which by the 1870s was already the more active trading hub on the Paraná.