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1 Boliviano
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Bolivia, Cobija |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO NACIONAL DE BOLIVIA COBIJA UN BOLIVIANO SELLO DE COBIJA Contador Gerente I° American Bank Note Co. New York |
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| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO NACIONAL DE BOLIVIA UN BOLIVIANO |
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Cobija was Bolivia's only Pacific coast port in 1873, a remote customs town that generated enough commercial traffic to support a regional bank of issue. The Banco Nacional de Bolivia operated as a private institution under government concession — Bolivia had no central bank at this period, and note-issuing rights were granted piecemeal to regional banks, each tied to a specific plaza of payment.
ABNC supplied the plates for most Bolivian private bank issues of this era, and the S184 series shares production characteristics with other South American commissions of the early 1870s. Within a decade, Bolivia's defeat in the War of the Pacific would strip the country of its entire coastline, and Cobija itself would effectively cease to matter as a commercial center.