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1/2 Real Boliviano
| Issuer | Banco de San Juan - Sucursal (Branch) Tucumán |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Value | ½ Real Boliviano |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note of modest format, with the central text panel reading VALE POR MEDIO REAL enclosed within a geometric guilloche border. The serial number appears in the upper portion alongside the branch designation. Manuscript signatures and handwritten date occupy the lower portion of the note, with the denomination MEDIO REAL repeated in the lateral and lower margins as underprint text. |
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The Banco de San Juan was a provincial bank operating under Argentina's pre-1890 fragmented banking regime, in which individual provinces could charter note-issuing institutions with minimal federal oversight. The Tucumán branch designation on this note is significant — San Juan and Tucumán are geographically remote from one another, and branch issuance of this kind reflects the chaotic improvisation that characterized Argentine provincial finance before the Banco Nacional took firmer hold.
The 1/2 Real Boliviano denomination is itself telling. Bolivia's silver real remained a unit of account in northern Argentine commerce well into the 1870s, particularly along trade routes connecting the Andean northwest to Tucumán's sugar economy.