100 Bolivianos Banco Potosi

Banco Potosí was one of several regional Bolivian banks granted note-issuing privileges under the 1871 banking law, which deliberately decentralized emission across the country's commercial centers rather than concentrating it in a national institution. Potosí's own history as the colonial hemisphere's greatest silver-mining city gave its bank a certain symbolic weight that the denomination reinforces — by the 1880s the mines were long past their peak, but the city still anchored Bolivia's monetary identity.

ABNC produced the plates in New York, as they did for most Bolivian provincial bank issues of this period. The series was superseded when Bolivia moved toward centralized banking in the early twentieth century, and surviving Banco Potosí notes in any condition are sparsely represented in major collections.