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1 Libra Peruana de Oro Iquitos Revolutionary Government
| Issuer | Loreto, Federal State of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Libra (10 PEH) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress printing on plain white paper. A vignette at left depicts an angel amid military and war emblems; the face value numeral appears in all four corners and along the lateral borders of the central design, with the denomination spelled out in full text below. The issuing place and date are inscribed at lower left and right respectively, accompanied by a four-digit black serial number at lower left and two manuscript signatures with printed titles below. |
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| Reverse description | Red letterpress printing on plain white paper. The central vignette carries an early rendition of the Peruvian coat of arms; the face value numeral is repeated in all four corners and along the lateral borders of the design, with the denomination rendered in full lettering below the central device. |
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The Federal State of Loreto's 1921 issue reflects one of the more obscure separatist episodes in South American history. Loreto, the vast Amazonian department, had longstanding grievances with Lima — geographic isolation, neglect, and disputes over rubber revenue among them — and periodically flirted with outright secession. This note was produced locally by El Oriente, the Iquitos newspaper press, which was not an uncommon arrangement in remote regions where no professional security printer was reachable.
Printing on a newspaper press meant quality control was rudimentary at best. The "Libra Peruana de Oro" denomination was nominally pegged to gold but functionally meaningless in a region where Lima's economic authority was already tenuous.