5 Bolivianos

Banco del Comercio was one of several Bolivian private banks of issue operating under the 1890 banking law, which effectively decentralized currency issuance across competing regional institutions. The arrangement lasted barely a decade — the 1914 consolidation under Banco de la Nación Boliviana terminated private note-issuing privileges, and most of the surviving commercial bank stock was withdrawn and destroyed.

Bradbury Wilkinson produced notes for a remarkable number of Latin American issuers during this period, and the quality of their intaglio work was a deliberate selling point — private banks competed partly on the perceived trustworthiness of their currency, and a London-printed note carried implicit credibility that local printing could not.