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Horizontal intaglio-printed note with the bank title BANCO DE MARACAIBO / COMPAÑÍA ANÓNIMA in bold letterpress across the upper register, flanked by the denomination numeral 20 at each corner. To the left, a vignette of a three-masted sailing vessel under full sail; at centre, an allegorical female figure seated on a rocky shoreline with ships in the background, accompanied by the value panel VALE VEINTE BOLÍVARES; to the right, an oval vignette of the Venezuelan national coat of arms. The note bears manuscript place and date lines, with signature lines for the Gerente and Presidente de la Asamblea Delegataria along the lower margin. |
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The reverse is unprinted, with plain cream-coloured cotton paper stock bearing only faint handling marks and two manuscript annotations in ink, consistent with typical reverse presentation for Venezuelan private bank issues of the early 1880s. |
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The Banco de Maracaibo was a regional commercial bank operating out of Venezuela's principal oil-free export hub — in 1882, Maracaibo's economy ran on coffee and hides, not petroleum. Regional banks in Venezuela during this period issued their own currency under concession, a privilege that made notes like this effectively private obligations rather than sovereign instruments. The ABNC plate work for provincial Latin American clients in the 1880s was consistently fine, though the paper on these Maracaibo issues is known to brown and spot more readily than contemporaneous ABNC output for larger national clients.
Pick 190 is genuinely rare. The Banco de Maracaibo's note-issuing life was short, curtailed well before Venezuela's 1940 banking consolidation.