1.000 Sucres

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.