5 Bolivianos

Banco Francisco Argandoña was one of Bolivia's private provincial banks operating under the 1890 banking law that briefly allowed regional institutions to issue their own currency. Bradbury Wilkinson produced the plates in London — a common arrangement for South American private banks that lacked the infrastructure for secure domestic printing but needed notes credible enough to circulate alongside government-issued paper.

The bank was based in Tupiza, in the southern Potosí department, serving mining and commercial interests in that corridor near the Argentine border. Provincial Bolivian bank notes of this period were frequently rejected outside their home regions, which kept most issues in tight local circulation and contributed to survival rates that vary sharply by issuer.