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50 Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Bolivia, Cobija |
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| Year | 1873 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Orange and black intaglio note with a central allegorical vignette of three female figures flanking a mountainous landscape within an oval guilloche frame; a portrait medallion of Simón Bolívar appears at lower left, and a seated allegorical figure at lower right. The denomination "50" appears in black numerals at upper left and right, with the bank title across the top. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured reverse with no printed design, bearing a handwritten annotation reading "Feb. 1892 Wrong Color" in pencil, likely a collector or archive notation. |
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Banco Nacional de Bolivia operated as a private commercial bank, one of several regional issuers that functioned in Bolivia before the establishment of a central bank. The Cobija branch designation is notable — Cobija was Bolivia's only Pacific port at the time, making it a hub for rubber and quinine trade before the War of the Pacific (1879–1884) stripped Bolivia of its coastal territory entirely. Notes issued from that branch reflect a window of commercial activity that closed permanently within a decade.
American Bank Note Company produced the plates in New York, as was common for South American private bank issues of this period. The S-prefix reference confirms this as a state or private bank issue rather than a government obligation.