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1 Peso 1/10 Condor
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1932-1942 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black border frame enclosing a blue center field with a wide diagonal pink underprint stripe running across the note. The bank seal of the Banco Central de Chile is positioned at right. Typeset and letterpress text identifies the note as a provisional issue, with the date of 12 September 1932 and a statement of gold convertibility. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, the reverse is dominated by a central guilloche rosette with interlocking geometric lathe-work, at the center of which the denomination lettering appears in large bold type. A fine geometric grid underprint fills the surrounding field, with the issuer name repeated in the border inscription at top and bottom. |
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Chile's 1 Peso note of this period carried the unusual dual denomination of "1 Peso / 1/10 Condor" — a vestige of the Condor unit introduced in 1925 when Chile attempted to stabilize its currency on a gold standard. That experiment collapsed spectacularly during the Depression; by 1932, the gold standard had been abandoned entirely, making the Condor fraction printed on this note a kind of monetary ghost, still present in the typography long after the underlying standard had ceased to function.
Printed domestically by the Talleres de Especies Valoradas rather than farmed out to a European security printer — unusual for the region at the time.