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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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| Value | 50 Pesos Plata Boliviana |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a single dark blue-grey ink and composed entirely of elaborate geometric lathe-work and guilloche patterns. A large central oval medallion contains an intaglio vignette of a bull's head facing forward, rendered with fine detail against a lightly ruled background. Corner pieces repeat the denomination '50' within intricate ornamental frames, and cross motifs occupy the intermediate spaces. The bank name is split across the top ('BANCO') and bottom ('PROVINCIAL DE SANTA FE') within plain rectangular panels, while the printer's imprint of the American Bank Note Company appears along the top margin. |
| 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.