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1 Boliviano Banco Agricola
| Issuer | Banco Agrícola (Bolivia) |
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| Year | 1903 |
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| Value | 1 Boliviano |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on yellow and pink guilloche underprint. Bank façade vignette at left; seated allegorical female figure holding a sickle and sheaf of wheat at right. Denomination and issuer legends in bold letterpress throughout. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 EL BANCO AGRICOLA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR UN BOLIVIANO EN MONEDA CORRIENTE LA PAZ Á 22 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1903. DELEGADO DEL GOBIERNO PRESIDENTE DEL DIRECTORIO ADMINISTRADOR GERENTE BRADBURY, WILKINSON Y CA. GRABADORES LONDRES. (Translation: Agricultural Bank will pay the bearer one boliviano in current currency. La Paz, November 22, 1903. Government delegate. Chairman of the board. Administrator manager. Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Engravers, London.) |
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The Banco Agrícola was established in Bolivia in the early 1900s to provide agricultural credit — a sector chronically underserved by the country's commercial banks, which concentrated their lending in the mining sector. Whether this note ever circulated meaningfully is an open question; Bolivia's private banking era ended abruptly with the 1914 monetary reforms that nationalized currency issuance, and many provincial agricultural bank notes were redeemed well before they could accumulate any real circulation history.
Bradbury, Wilkinson printed for dozens of Latin American issuers during this period, and the quality of their intaglio work made their notes extremely difficult to counterfeit — a practical priority in rural Bolivian markets where note authentication was essentially impossible without that tactile depth.