500 Reales de Vellón Banco de La Coruña

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.