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½ Real Boliviano
| Issuer | Banco Entre-Riano |
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| Year | 1872 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue-green ink on plain paper, with a rectangular border enclosing the central text block. The bank title BANCO ENTRE-RIANO appears in bold letterpress across the upper portion, surmounted by the legend MEDIO REAL, with the date line reading Concepción del Uruguay, Enero 8 de 1872. The denomination ½ MEDIO REAL BOLIVIANO ½ is set in a central band, beneath which a promise-to-pay clause reads Pagará a la vista UN PESO PLATA BOLIVIANA ó su equivalente en moneda legal al portador por diez y seis de estos billetes POR EL BANCO; a manuscript signature and serial number appear at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | MEDIO REAL BANCO ENTRE-RIANO Concepción del Uruguay, Enero 8 de 1872 ½ MEDIO REAL BOLIVIANO ½ Pagará a la vista UN PESO PLATA BOLIVIANA ó su equivalente en moneda legal al portador por diez y seis de estos billetes POR EL BANCO |
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The Banco Entre-Riano was one of the provincial banks operating in Entre Ríos, Argentina, during the brief window of federally tolerated free banking in the early 1870s. These institutions issued their own notes denominated in the Bolivian real — a unit that had long circulated in the interior provinces by custom rather than law, a practical acknowledgment of what people actually used in commerce along the Paraná River trade routes.
The PS prefix in the Pick reference confirms this as a South American regional issue of uncertain redemption history. Most provincial Argentine bank notes of this period were never redeemed at face value; the national banking reforms that followed effectively stranded them.