Catalog
1 Boliviano
| Issuer | Banco Agrícola |
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| Year | 1903 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S101 |
| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper. At upper centre, the bank title EL BANCO AGRICOLA is inscribed within an ornate guilloche border, with the denomination UNO and the legend PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR above UN BOLIVIANO EN MONEDA CORRIENTE. To the left, a vignette of a neoclassical building facade, identified as the bank's premises in La Paz; to the right, an allegorical female figure seated with agricultural produce at her side. The date LA PAZ, a 22 de Noviembre de 1903 appears in script, with signature lines for the Presidente del Directorio, Delegado del Gobierno, and Administrador Gerente below. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown-purple on white paper, the reverse centres on an intaglio pastoral vignette of farm workers loading a hay-laden ox cart in a rural field, rendered in fine line engraving. Elaborate guilloche rosettes occupy each corner, with symmetrical ornamental scrollwork framing the composition on left and right. The bank title EL BANCO AGRICOLA runs across the top, and the denomination UNO appears at the lower centre within a simple panel. |
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The Banco Agrícola was one of several Bolivian provincial and sectoral banks operating under the 1890 banking law, which permitted private institutions to issue their own notes — a privilege that lasted only until the Banco de la Nación Boliviana absorbed most of that authority after 1911. The agricultural bank's notes circulated in a narrow regional and commercial context, not as general national currency.
Bradbury, Wilkinson produced tight, technically accomplished work throughout Latin America in this period. The S-prefix in the Pick reference signals this is catalogued as a private or provincial issue rather than a central government emission.