Catalog
1.000 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1926 |
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| Currency | Sucre (1884-2000) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DEL ECUADOR Pagará al portador UN MIL SUCRES EN MONEDA CORRIENTE Guayaquil GERENTES 1000 American Bank Note Co. New York |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DEL ECUADOR UN MIL SUCRES GUAYAQUIL 1000 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY NEW YORK |
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The Banco del Ecuador was a private commercial bank, one of several regional institutions that held note-issuing privileges in Ecuador before the 1927 Kemmerer Mission reforms forced centralization and created the Banco Central del Ecuador. This note predates that transition by roughly a year — making it among the final issues of the private banking era, printed by ABNC in New York during a period when Ecuador's monetary system was under active foreign scrutiny.
At 1,000 Sucres, this is the highest denomination of the series. Few circulated at face value in everyday commerce; notes of this size moved between banks and large mercantile houses.