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| Issuer | Banco Oxandaburu y Garbino |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos Bolivianos |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO OXANDABURU Y GARBINO PAGARA AL PORTADOR Y A LA VISTA DIEZ PESOS BOLIVIANOS O SU EQUIVALENTE EN MONEDA LEGAL DIEZ 10 Gualeguaychú, 26 de agosto de 1869 |
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| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO OXANDABURU Y GARBINO 10 |
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Banco Oxandaburu y Garbino was one of Bolivia's earliest private banking ventures, operating out of Potosí at a moment when the Bolivian government had not yet established a central bank and private commercial banks were issuing their own notes under relatively loose oversight. The 1860s saw a cluster of such concessions granted to merchant houses and partnerships, many of them short-lived. This bank was no exception — its issuing period was brief, and PS#1804 survivors are genuinely uncommon.
The "Pesos Bolivianos" denomination places this firmly before the 1864 monetary reform's effects had fully standardized private issue nomenclature, and well before the 1908 Banco de la Nación Bolivia absorbed the private issue function entirely.