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1 Peso Boliviano
| Issuer | Banco Solanas y Cía. |
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| Year | 1874 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO SOLANAS Y CÍA. UN PESO BOLIVIANO Pagará al portador y a la vista UN PESO BOLIVIANO o su equivalente en el tipo de ley Gualeguay Agosto 1° 1874 BANCO SOLANAS Y CÍA. |
| Reverse description | Printed in green and black ink, the reverse is covered by an elaborate lathe-work guilloche pattern across the entire surface. A large central medallion encloses an ornate numeral 1 within a pearl-beaded oval border, flanked by smaller circular guilloche rosettes bearing a stylized monogram. The composition is contained within a finely engraved rectangular border of repeating geometric ornament. |
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Banco Solanas y Cía. was one of several short-lived private commercial banks operating in Bolivia during the 1870s, a decade when the national government had not yet established a central issuing authority and private banks filled the void under relatively permissive banking legislation. Most of these institutions collapsed or were absorbed before the turn of the century, and their paper rarely survived in any quantity — notes were either redeemed and destroyed or simply lost to time in a country where archival preservation was not a priority.
PS#1915 is among the scarcer private Bolivian issues of the period. Thin documentation on Solanas y Cía. itself makes attribution of the printer uncertain.