| Descripción del anverso |
Black intaglio on cream cotton paper, centred on a large ornate guilloche medallion enclosing the numeral «100», flanked by two allegorical seated female figures: the left figure is attended by the Venezuelan coat of arms, while the right figure rests against a cogwheel with a harbour vignette visible in the background. The bank title appears in bold letterpress across the upper margin, with the denomination in words along the centre and a manuscript promise-to-pay clause in Spanish below, the whole printed by the American Bank Note Company, New York. |
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| Descripción del reverso |
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.