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1 Boliviano
| Issuer | Banco Francisco Argandoña |
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| Year | 1893 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed note in black on light ground; oval portrait vignette at left of a mustachioed gentleman in formal attire, flanked by radiating guilloche rays. A cherub vignette appears at right. Central text reads UN BOLIVIANO EN MONEDA CORRIENTE beneath the bank title, with emission date and serial number in upper margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green; two allegorical female figures flank a central oval vignette of the Bolivian coat of arms. The left figure holds a caduceus and the right bears a staff, both rendered in fine intaglio line engraving. The bank title appears in a tablet at the top centre, with ornate guilloche borders framing the entire composition. |
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Banco Francisco Argandoña was a private regional bank operating out of La Paz, one of several Bolivian commercial banks authorized to issue notes under the 1890 banking law that briefly opened currency issuance to private institutions. The arrangement didn't last — the Bolivian government moved to centralize currency control in the early twentieth century, and most of these private issuing banks were wound up or absorbed.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced the plates, as they did for a number of South American private bank commissions in this period. The S-prefix Pick designation signals a private or semi-official issue, and surviving examples of this denomination are scarce enough that auction appearances are infrequent.