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500 Reales de Vellón Banco de La Coruña
| Issuer | Banco de La Coruña |
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| Year | 1857 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S303 |
| Obverse description | Central vignette consists of a lighthouse tower flanked by three sailing vessels on open sea, rendered in fine intaglio line engraving. The note carries upper and left decorative matrix borders framing the text block. Denomination panels reading '500 r/s' appear at left and right, with the issuing bank title and promise-to-pay legend occupying the upper register. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of plain white paper, with the obverse design visible in faint show-through. The absence of any printed element on this side is characteristic of Spanish provincial bank issues of the mid-nineteenth century. |
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The Banco de La Coruña was one of the short-lived provincial banks authorized under Spain's 1856 banking legislation, which briefly decentralized note issuance before the Banco de España absorbed most of that authority. The Coruña institution operated for only a few years before its privileges were curtailed, making its paper rare simply because so little was ever produced or redeemed through normal channels.
P#S303 is among the scarcest entries in the Spanish provincial series. The "S" prefix in Pick places it in the specialized section, reflecting how marginal this issuer was even within its own era.