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1 Real
| Issuer | Banco Hipotecario, Tucumán |
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| Year | 1841 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO HIPOTECARIO VALE UN REAL Tucuman Marzo 9 de 1841 Por el Presid. y Directores |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a mirror impression of the obverse printing visible through the thin paper stock, with a corresponding oval stamp or seal in brown ink at the right. The surface is otherwise plain, showing foxing and age toning consistent with a note of this period. |
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Banco Hipotecario de Tucumán was one of the short-lived provincial banking experiments that emerged in Argentina during the fragmented years before any semblance of national monetary organization. The bank operated under a mortgage-lending mandate — "hipotecario" in name and purpose — which made the issuance of circulating paper notes an unusual extension of its function. Whether this 1 Real actually circulated widely or served a more limited local transactional role is unclear, but the province of Tucumán at this period had virtually no external printing infrastructure, making a local Tucumán imprint genuinely notable.
Provincial Argentine notes from the 1840s are among the most fragile survivors in South American notaphily — thin, locally produced paper, minimal security features, and a public that trusted silver coin over any paper promise.