5 Pesos Moneda Boliviana

Banco Solanas y Cía. was one of the short-lived provincial banks that briefly flourished in Bolivia during the 1870s, before the government moved to consolidate and restrict private note-issuing institutions. The American Bank Note Company produced notes for dozens of Latin American clients during this period, and the plates for smaller regional banks were often assembled from stock vignette elements held in the ABNC inventory rather than commissioned as original designs.

The "Moneda Boliviana" denomination suffix distinguished these notes from contemporaneous issues denominated in reales or in the older colonial accounting units still in informal use. Solanas y Cía. left almost no documentary trace in the Bolivian banking record, which makes the survival of any example from this issue notable.