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½ Real Plata Boliviana
| Issuer | Banco Argentino, Paraná |
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| Year | 187_ |
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| Value | ½ Real Plata Boliviana |
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| Obverse description | Purple-printed note with an ornate typographic layout; the bank name BANCO ARGENTINO and PARANÁ appear in large bold lettering across the upper half, flanked by circular corner vignettes each reading MEDIO REAL. A central oval vignette contains a portrait of a dog's head in engraved style, positioned between the denomination panels MEDIO and REAL. The lower portion carries a letterpress promise-to-pay text in Spanish, with guilloche underprint filling the bottom register. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain paper surface with no design elements, lettering, or security features. |
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Banco Argentino operated out of Paraná, Entre Ríos, during the period when Argentine provincial banks still held significant note-issuing authority before the national consolidation of banking powers in the 1880s. The denomination in Reales Plata Boliviana is telling — Bolivia's silver coinage remained a common circulating medium in the Río de la Plata interior long after Argentine national currency had nominally standardized, and issuers in the Mesopotamian provinces routinely denominated notes against it for practical commercial reasons.
The blank decade digit in the date suggests the plates served across multiple years. PS#1491 is among the more obscure entries in the South American provincial series.