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100 Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Bolivia, Cobija |
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| Year | 1873 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE BOLIVIA CIEN 100 Cobija Pagará á la vista al portador en Cobija CIEN BOLIVIANOS en Valparaíso se equivalent en moneda de Chile Contador Jerente SELLO DE COBIJA |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE BOLIVIA DE 100 100 |
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The Banco Nacional de Bolivia's Cobija branch was one of several provincial issuers operating under Bolivia's decentralized banking framework of the early 1870s, each empowered to issue its own notes against local deposits and trade. Cobija — a small Pacific port then serving as Bolivia's only coastal outlet — was commercially active enough to warrant its own currency, though the town's population never exceeded a few thousand. The American Bank Note Company supplied the printed stock, as it did for most Bolivian provincial banks of the period.
Bolivia lost Cobija and its entire Pacific coastline to Chile during the War of the Pacific (1879–1884), effectively ending whatever circulation life these notes had left.