Catalog
10 Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Industrial de La Paz |
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| Year | 1905 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark intaglio-printed note with the bank title "BANCO INDUSTRIAL DE LA PAZ" across the top. A seated allegorical female figure appears at left and a group of indigenous Bolivian figures at right, flanking a central guilloche vignette with the numeral "10". Inscriptions include "PAGARÁ A LA VISTA AL PORTADOR" and "DIEZ BOLIVIANOS" below the central panel. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brownish-red, the reverse centres on an oval vignette of the Bolivian national coat of arms encircled by an intricate guilloche frame. The numerals "10" appear at left and right within elaborate lathe-work rosette panels. The inscriptions "BANCO INDUSTRIAL" at top and "DE LA PAZ BOLIVIA" at bottom arc around the central motif. |
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Banco Industrial de La Paz was one of several Bolivian regional banks authorized to issue private banknotes under the 1890 banking law, before the state moved to centralize currency control — a process that accelerated sharply after the Banco de la República was established in 1911. Notes from La Paz's commercial banks had effectively ceased circulating as legal tender well before that transition completed.
ABNC engraved and printed the entire series, as it did for most Bolivian private bank paper of the period. The S-prefix Pick reference confirms private bank status.