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5 Bolivianos Banco Nacional de Bolivia
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Bolivia |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Uniface blue intaglio print; an elaborate symmetric guilloche framework surrounds a central oval medallion bearing the bank name in three lines. Numeral 5 appears in large ornate counters at left and right within intricate lathe-work scrollwork and heart-shaped ornamental motifs throughout. |
| Reverse lettering | 5 BANCO NACIONAL DE BOLIVIA American Bank Note Co. New York. (Translation: National Bank of Bolivia.) |
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The Banco Nacional de Bolivia was founded in 1871, just two years before this note was issued, making it one of the earliest emissions from what was then Bolivia's first formally chartered commercial bank. The American Bank Note Company in New York supplied the printing for much of the bank's early paper, a common arrangement for South American institutions of the period that lacked domestic intaglio capacity.
Bolivia still controlled its Pacific coastal territory in 1873 — the War of the Pacific was still six years away. The loss of that territory to Chile in 1879 would eventually destabilize the country's banking system, but the Banco Nacional survived longer than most of its competitors before the nationalization wave of the early twentieth century.