Catalog
1/5 Sol = 20 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco del Valle de Chicama |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Currency | Sol (1863-1985) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on white paper, the reverse is dominated by three large interlocking guilloche medallions arranged symmetrically in a horizontal band, each bearing the fractional denomination 1/5 SOL at its centre. The design relies entirely on fine lathe-work geometric patterns without pictorial vignettes, with FUNDADO arching across the upper portion and EN 1873. along the lower border, recording the bank's founding year. |
| Reverse lettering | FUNDADO EN 1873. |
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The Banco del Valle de Chicama was a private agricultural bank serving Peru's northern sugar-producing region — the Chicama Valley was one of the most productive cane-growing areas on the Pacific coast, and the bank's notes circulated largely within that economic ecosystem rather than nationally. Private provincial banks of this type proliferated in Peru during the early 1870s before the fiscal pressures of the War of the Pacific effectively ended most of them.
The American Bank Note Company contract is consistent with Peruvian banking practice of the period — Lima and regional issuers alike routinely sent their plate work to New York.