10 Bolivianos

Banco Francisco Argandoña was a private commercial bank operating out of Potosí, and among the smaller regional issuers active in Bolivia during the fractured banking era of the 1880s and 1890s, when Congress authorized multiple provincial banks to issue their own notes under the 1890 Ley de Bancos. Bradbury Wilkinson handled several of these commissions, supplying security-printed notes to Bolivian institutions that lacked any domestic printing infrastructure capable of the work.

The bank itself was short-lived. By the late 1890s, consolidation pressure and the eventual nationalization of note-issuing rights had effectively ended private bank circulation in Bolivia — surviving notes from this issuer are accordingly scarce.