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| 表面の説明 | Black intaglio print on white paper. At left, a classical allegorical female figure stands holding a scroll inscribed 'CAPITAL B.1.250.000', with the Venezuelan coat of arms in the lower left corner. A central oval vignette contains a portrait of a young woman in three-quarter view, surrounded by intricate guilloche work, with the large numeral '400' rendered in ornate script to either side. The bank title 'BANCO DE MARACAIBO' arcs across the top, with 'COMPAÑIA ANONIMA' below it, and the place and date 'Maracaibo, de 189_' inscribed beneath. |
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| 裏面の銘文 | 400 |
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The Banco de Maracaibo was a regional commercial bank operating out of Venezuela's principal oil-free, pre-petroleum trading city — in 1897, Maracaibo's wealth still moved through coffee and cattle, not crude. The bank had authorization to issue notes, but did so in denominations shaped by the scale of local merchant transactions rather than national policy. A 400 Bolívares note is an unusual denomination by any measure, suggesting it was engineered for specific commercial clearing purposes rather than general retail circulation.
ABNC's involvement is unsurprising — the company held near-monopoly status on quality banknote printing for Latin American issuers through this period. What is worth noting is that at the 400 Bolívares level, surviving examples are genuinely rare; high-denomination regional commercial notes from this era were typically redeemed and destroyed once the issuing bank's charter lapsed or was absorbed.