10 Bolívares

The Banco Comercial was one of several regional Venezuelan banks operating under the 1880 banking law, which permitted note-issuing privileges to chartered commercial banks well into the twentieth century — an unusually long survival of decentralized emission by Latin American standards. Maracaibo's commercial banking sector was closely tied to the Lake Maracaibo trade routes, and notes from this institution circulated heavily among merchants rather than through formal banking channels.

ABNC produced the plates in New York under their standard contract arrangement with smaller Latin American issuers. The bank's name change to Banco Comercial de Maracaibo occurred after this series was already in circulation.