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½ Real Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco del Río de La Plata |
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| Year | 1868 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown monochrome note with an ornate guilloche border incorporating repeated 'M' and '½' motifs at the corners and edges. A central oval vignette presents a horse's head in profile, flanked by the issuer's name in two lines across the face of the note. Below the vignette, the denomination and payment obligation are stated in letterpress text, with the place of issue ('Gualeguay') and date ('Octubre 3 de 1868') printed in the lower register alongside a handwritten signature and a serial number. |
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| Obverse lettering | PROVINCIA DE ENTRERIOS EL BANCO DEL RIO DE LA PLATA Pagará a la vista UN PESO Plata BOLIVIANA al portador de Diez y seis de estos billetes Sño A. GUALEGUAY Octubre 3 de 1868 Por el Banco MEDIO |
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The Banco del Río de La Plata was a short-lived private commercial bank operating in Buenos Aires during the 1860s, when Argentina's banking sector was a patchwork of provincial and private institutions each issuing their own paper. The ½ Real denomination is unusually fractional — small-change notes of this kind were typically a response to chronic coin shortages, particularly in smaller silver denominations that were being melted, exported, or hoarded in preference to paper.
The "Plata Boliviana" specification is notable: it anchors the note's value to Bolivian silver coinage rather than the Argentine peso, reflecting just how fragmented and regionally negotiated monetary units were in the Río de la Plata basin at this period.