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500 Reales de Vellón Banco de Bilbao
| Uitgever | Banco de Bilbao |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1857 |
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| Waarde | 500 Reales Vellon |
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| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Central allegorical vignette of a seated female figure holding a caduceus and cornucopia, with a shield and anchor at her side and a sailing vessel in the background; lateral panels carry two child vignettes representing characteristic commercial and maritime activities of Bilbao. The composition is executed in intaglio with fine letterpress text framing the central design. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is unprinted, consisting of plain paper stock with no vignette, text, or ornamental elements, consistent with mid-nineteenth-century Spanish provincial banknote practice. |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Banco de Bilbao received its royal charter in 1857, making this 500 Reales de Vellón one of the earliest — possibly inaugural — issues from that institution. Spain's provincial banking law of 1856 had authorized individual commercial banks across the peninsula to issue their own notes, a decentralized arrangement that lasted only until the Bank of Spain's monopoly was enforced through the 1874 decree. That left the entire Bilbao private issue series with a circulation window of under two decades.
The reales de vellón denomination itself was already being phased out in favor of the escudo by 1864, which compresses this note's active life further still.