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500 Reales de Vellón Banco de Málaga
| Issuer | Banco de Málaga |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Currency | Real (decimalized, 1848-1873) |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned note engraved in the Perkins, Bacon intaglio style, with a central vignette of a seated allegorical female figure at the seashore accompanied by a cornucopia overflowing with fruit, a sailing vessel visible in the background. The bank title and denomination text are set within typeset letterpress panels, with the hand-completed date and place fields left blank for issue. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on cream-toned paper, consistent with the printing practice of Perkins, Bacon & Petch for this issue. |
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The Banco de Málaga was one of a cluster of provincial Spanish banks authorized under the 1856 banking law, which briefly permitted regional note issuance before the Banco de España absorbed most of their privileges in the 1870s. This note dates from that narrow window of provincial banking autonomy — a short-lived experiment that ended badly for most of the institutions involved.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch were chosen by several of these Spanish provincial banks, almost certainly because their intaglio work and security printing reputation made London the practical default for institutions that lacked domestic alternatives of comparable quality. The reales de vellón denomination itself was already living on borrowed time in 1860, superseded by the escudo system just four years later in 1864.