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100 Bolívares
| Issuer | Banco Comercial de Maracaibo |
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| Year | 1933-1934 |
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| Currency | Bolívar (1879-1983) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO COMERCIAL DE MARACAIBO COMPAÑIA ANÓNIMA CIEN BOLIVARES PAGARA AL PORTADOR EN SUS OFICINAS EN DINERO EFECTIVO MARACÁIBO CAPITAL: Bs. 2.000.000 SERIE C 100 SPECIMEN |
| Reverse description | The reverse is rendered in a uniform olive-golden tone and centres on a large intaglio pastoral vignette of Venezuelan rural life, with a standing woman in traditional dress accompanied by a child in the foreground and agricultural workers beneath palm-thatched structures in the background. The bank title BANCO COMERCIAL DE MARACAIBO runs across the top, flanked by repeating micro-numeral borders reading 100, while large denomination numerals occupy guilloche panels at left and right. The inscription COMPAÑÍA ANÓNIMA appears at the foot of the note, with the printer's imprint along the lower margin. |
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The Banco Comercial de Maracaibo was one of a handful of regional Venezuelan banks that retained note-issuing privileges well into the twentieth century, long after most Latin American countries had centralized currency authority. This note dates from the early 1930s, when Venezuela's oil revenues were already transforming the economy but the Banco Central de Venezuela had not yet been established — that came in 1940, effectively ending the commercial banks' right to issue.
American Bank Note Company printed for Maracaibo across several denominations during this period. The 100 Bolívares was the highest circulating value in the series, and surviving examples in any condition are scarce relative to lower denominations.