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| Issuer | Banco del Comercio |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on green and blue guilloche underprint. At left, a seated allegorical female figure with a child and cornucopia forms the main vignette; a bust portrait facing left, identified as Antonio Nariño, appears at lower right. Text panel bears the place and date of issue with denomination in full. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 ORURO, ENERO 1ᐤ DE 1900. EL BANCO DEL Comercio PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR Á LA VISTA CINCO BOLIVANOS EN MONEDA CORRIENTE DELEGADO DEL GOBIERNO CAJERO DIRECTOR GERENTE Bradbury Wilkinson y Co Grabadores Londres (Translation: Oruro, January 1st., 1900. The Commerce Bank will pay the bearer, at sight five bolivianos in current currency. Government delegate. Cashier. Managing director. Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., Engravers, London.) |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green. The Bolivian coat of arms occupies the central vignette, surrounded by elaborate intaglio guilloche scrollwork and ornamental lathe-work; numeral 5 appears at upper left and upper right within decorative cartouches, with the denomination in full rendered in a solid panel at the base. |
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