500 Soles

Banco La Providencia was a private Peruvian commercial bank operating under the relatively liberal banking legislation of the early 1870s, which briefly allowed a proliferation of note-issuing institutions before the War of the Pacific and subsequent state interventions collapsed most of them. The American Bank Note Company handled the engraving and printing — a standard choice for South American private banks of this period seeking credibility through association with a prestigious North American security printer.

At 500 soles, this is a high-denomination instrument, almost certainly used for interbank settlement or large commercial transactions rather than retail circulation. Surviving examples are rare for exactly that reason.