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Banco de A. Edwards y Cía. was one of the private Chilean banks authorized to issue currency under the 1860 Ley de Bancos, which allowed commercial houses to print their own notes provided they maintained a specie reserve. The Edwards family banking operation was among the most powerful financial institutions in nineteenth-century Chile, with interests spanning mining, agriculture, and foreign trade — the bank's notes circulated with a degree of trust that purely provincial issuers rarely commanded.

Private bank note issues in Chile were terminated by the 1925 monetary reforms that established the Banco Central. Notes from 1872 predate the monetary turbulence of the War of the Pacific by nearly a decade.