Catalog
100 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco de Maracaibo |
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| Year | 1882 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE MARACAIBO CAPITAL COMPAÑÍA ANÓNIMA B 160.000 VALE CIEN BOLÍVARES que se pagarán al portador en Maracaibo a su presentación MARACAIBO GERENTE PRESIDENTE DE LA ASAMBLEA DE ACCIONISTAS American Bank Note Co. N.Y. |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream-coloured cotton paper, bearing no design elements, vignettes, or text, consistent with the reverse of an imperforate proof or an unissued specimen of this series. |
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The Banco de Maracaibo was a regional institution, not a national one — chartered in Venezuela's oil-free, commercially active west during a period when Caracas had not yet established effective monetary centralization. That regional independence meant private banks like this one issued their own notes with full legal-tender status locally, and the ABNCo contract was a deliberate signal of credibility to merchant partners in the Maracaibo basin trade network.
At 100 Bolívares, this is the highest denomination in the series and almost certainly saw limited hand-to-hand circulation. Large commercial transactions were its environment. Survivors are rare.