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1 Peso Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Rosario |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Value | 1 Peso Plata Boliviana |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a bold vertical letterpress inscription of the bank name BANCO ARGENTINO within a guilloche panel running along the left edge, with no further vignette or central design, consistent with the simple backs typical of early Argentine provincial private bank issues. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO ARGENTINO |
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The Banco Argentino operated out of Rosario during a period when provincial banking in Argentina was essentially unregulated — before the national banking laws of the 1870s forced consolidation, dozens of private banks issued their own notes with little federal oversight. This note denominates in Pesos Plata Boliviana, a unit tied to the Bolivian silver peso that circulated widely in the interior provinces and was preferred by merchants in the Litoral region over the Buenos Aires-centric Peso Fuerte.
H.A. Lersch was a Buenos Aires-based printer responsible for several provincial bank issues of the 1860s — a local production rather than the European-printed prestige issues some competing banks favored.