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20 Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco de la Nación Boliviana |
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| Year | 1911 |
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| Value | 20 Bolivianos |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA NACION BOLIVIANA LA PAZ 11 de Mayo de 1911 PAGARA AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA VEINTE BOLIVIANOS Série A Nº 22580 CONTADOR SECRETARIO DEL GOBIERNO |
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| Protection description | Watermarked cotton paper, specific watermark pattern consistent with American Bank Note Company security paper of the period. |
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The Banco de la Nación Boliviana was established by law in 1911, replacing a chaotic landscape of private commercial banks that had each issued their own currency — a system that had produced rampant over-issuance and contributed to serious monetary instability in the preceding decades. This note belongs to the bank's inaugural series, making it an early product of Bolivia's attempt to centralize note-issuing authority under a single state institution.
ABNC's engraved work for Bolivian state clients during this period was consistently high quality, and the watermarked cotton stock was a deliberate step up from the paper standards many of the replaced private banks had used.