Catalog
5 Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Industrial de La Paz |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S152 |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO INDUSTRIAL DE LA PAZ Pagará á la vista al portador BOLIVIA SÉRIE CINCO BOLIVIANOS EN MONEDA CORRIENTE La Paz, Junio 1° de 1900 CONTADOR DELEGADO DEL GOBIERNO P° Director Gerente American Bank Note Co. New York CINCO 5 |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red-orange on cream paper, the reverse centres on the Bolivian coat of arms within an elaborate oval guilloche border inscribed with the bank name. Flanking rosettes each contain the numeral "5". Dense lathe-work fills the entire background field. |
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Banco Industrial de La Paz was a short-lived private commercial bank operating under Bolivia's free banking period, before the state moved to consolidate note-issuing authority in the early twentieth century. The American Bank Note Company engraved and printed for dozens of Latin American private banks during this period, and the quality of their work often far outlasted the institutions that commissioned it.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference places this firmly in the Specialized catalogue — a private bank issue, not a national obligation. Few Bolivian private bank notes survived in any quantity; most were redeemed and pulped when centralization came.