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| 正面描述 | The obverse is printed in dark blue-grey ink on a salmon-pink underprint. The Bolivian national coat of arms appears as the central vignette, flanked on either side by the numeral '10' in large figures. To the right, an oval vignette presents a tropical palm tree landscape. The header reads 'VALE DE TESORERIA DE LA REPUBLICA DE BOLIVIA' in bold letterpress, with the series letter 'A' printed at lower left and right, and signature lines for the Director del Tesoro Nacional, Ministro de Hacienda, Delegado Nacional, and Admor. de Aduana. |
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| 背面描述 | The reverse is printed entirely in red ink and dominated by an elaborate guilloche framework of interlocking rosettes and scrollwork. A central circular vignette contains a female allegorical portrait with a radiant sunburst underprint. A rectangular text panel below the central vignette carries the authorizing law text, and the numeral '10' appears in large figures at both left and right within the guilloche border. |
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The Tesorería de la República de Bolivia — the national treasury rather than a central bank — issued this series during a period when Bolivia had no central issuing authority in the modern sense. Treasury notes of this type were fiscal instruments, not purely commercial ones, and the decision to contract American Bank Note Company in New York was deliberate: foreign-printed currency carried more credibility with creditors and trading partners than anything produced domestically.
Bolivia had just emerged from the devastating War of the Pacific (1879–1884), in which it lost its entire Pacific coastline to Chile. The fiscal damage ran deep into the following decade, and the 1902 issue reflects an attempt to stabilize public finance under genuinely constrained circumstances.