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20 Pesos Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco del Comercio, Gualeguay |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown and black note with the bank title EL BANCO DEL COMERCIO in bold letters across the centre, with the place name Gualeguay and a manuscript date at the top. A central vignette shows a tall column monument set within a plaza with buildings in the background, flanked by the numeral 20 in ornate counters at left and right. To the lower left, an intaglio vignette of a standing male figure in period dress, and to the lower right a smaller allegorical figure; the obligation text Pagará al portador y a la vista VEINTE PESOS BOLIVIANOS é su equivalente en oro al tipo de Ley is inscribed below the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gualeguay 1° de Julio 1862 3° Serie EL BANCO DEL COMERCIO Pagará al portador y a la vista VEINTE PESOS BOLIVIANOS é su equivalente en oro al tipo de Ley 20 |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in brown, the reverse is composed of an elaborate engine-turned guilloche design with four large circular rosette counters bearing the numeral 20 at each corner, and the bank name BANCO DEL COMERCIO set in two lines within a central rectangular panel surrounded by intricate lathe-work and geometric ornamental borders. The word VEINTE appears vertically along both side margins. |
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