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20 Bolivianos Banco Agricola
| Issuer | Banco Agrícola (Bolivia) |
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| Year | 1903 |
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| Value | 20 Bolivianos |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio on salmon-pink guilloche underprint; large ornate bank title 'EL BANCO AGRICOLA' in script across centre, flanked by an oval vignette of the bank building at left and a pastoral vignette of a woman carrying a jug with cattle at right. Date 'La Paz, 22 de Noviembre de 1903' upper right; denomination '20' repeated in corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO AGRICOLA VEINTE BRADBURY, WILKINSON Y Cª GRABADORES, LONDRES |
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The Banco Agrícola was established to direct credit toward Bolivia's agricultural sector — a priority in a country whose economy was otherwise dominated almost entirely by the tin and silver mining industries. This note dates from the bank's early operational years, before the 1914 banking reforms that progressively curtailed the note-issuing privileges of Bolivian private banks.
Bradbury Wilkinson's engraving work for South American agricultural and commercial banks during this period was prolific, and the firm's output for Bolivia is well documented. The plates were produced and the notes printed at their New Malden works in Surrey.