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100 Bolivianos Banco Nacional de Bolivia
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Bolivia |
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| Year | 1883 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, New York, USA |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio on orange-yellow guilloche underprint; left vignette shows a conquistador standing over a seated indigenous woman beneath an archway, right vignette shows a reclining allegorical female figure with an urn and anchor. Denomination numerals '100' appear in upper corners and at center base; SPECIMEN overprint in red across the lower margin with cancellation punch holes. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in orange and black; a central oval intaglio vignette shows an allegorical female figure wearing a laurel crown, holding a shield and staff, set against a lightly shaded background. Denomination panels with '100' flank the central vignette on both sides, surrounded by elaborate floral and foliate intaglio ornamentation on an orange underprint with a Greek-key border. |
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The Banco Nacional de Bolivia was established in 1871 with a concession from the Bolivian government, operating as the country's dominant commercial bank and primary note-issuing institution through the 1870s and 1880s. By 1883, the bank had survived the disruption of the War of the Pacific — which stripped Bolivia of its Pacific coastline and devastated government finances — and continued issuing notes backed by its own reserves rather than any central authority.
American Bank Note Company produced the plates, as it did for the majority of South American banking institutions of this period. ABNC's grip on the regional market was near-total by the 1880s, which makes distinguishing one country's private bank issues from another largely a matter of reading the text.