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50 Bolivianos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Bolivia, Antofagasta |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Value | 50 Bolivianos |
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| Reverse description | Monochromatic blue back printed entirely in fine guilloche lathe-work. A large central rosette medallion bears the bank inscription encircling the numeral "50", flanked by two symmetrical smaller rosette counters. Decorative lozenge and scroll borders frame all four sides, with the printer's imprint at top and bottom. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE BOLIVIA 50 American Bank Note Co. New York |
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The Banco Nacional de Bolivia was established in 1871 with Chilean and Bolivian private capital, headquartered in Antofagasta — then a Bolivian port city. Its notes were printed by the American Bank Note Company in New York, the dominant supplier of engraved banknote work for South American issuers throughout the 1870s. The bank's entire operational geography would be upended within a decade: the War of the Pacific (1879–1884) transferred Antofagasta permanently to Chile, leaving a Bolivian-chartered bank physically located in foreign territory.
That political rupture effectively ended the bank's viability as a Bolivian institution. Notes of this 1874 series consequently had a short circulating life.