LOT WITHDRAWNProof of front in black on card. Without bank name.<p>Presumably prepared for the second or a later issue for the Banco Nacional de Venezuela. <p>Pencil inscription by the printer at center "Melt all 1857" referring to the date of destruction of the plates in 1857, in keeping with the date of the closing of the institution several years earlier, and subsequent housecleaning at the printer.<p>The style follows closely the original 1841 issue, and the denominations are as discussed by Rosenman.<p>It is not known whether the Bank intended as a security device to print the name of the bank separately, i.e. in colour, or whether this plate simply had not been completed when the Bank closed.<p>Unlike the first issue illustrated in Rosenman, these are believed to have been printed in England or Scotland, possibly by the famous firm of W.H. Lizars in Edinburgh, who printed notes for the Bank of Montreal in Canada and the Bank of Bengal in India in this same period.<p>Toning. Annotation.
