10 Bolívares

The Banco Comercial de Maracaibo was one of the last surviving regional commercial banks in Venezuela still issuing its own currency during the early 1930s. By this point the Banco Central de Venezuela did not yet exist — it wouldn't be established until 1940 — leaving a handful of regional institutions still exercising note-issuing authority under federal license. This note belongs to that closing window.

ABNC printed for dozens of Latin American clients during this period, and the Maracaibo series is among the rarer commissions — the bank's catchment was the oil-boom economy of Zulia state, but circulation was geographically bounded and issue volumes were modest. The series was effectively dead before Venezuela's central banking reform rendered all private issue moot.