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| 表面の説明 | Black on orange underprint. At left, a vignette of a seated child with a lyre; at top center, a pastoral vignette of a woman with sheep; at right, a bull's head vignette. Order numbers printed in red. |
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| 表面の銘文 | BANCO FUNDADO POR LEONARDO LACAYO EM 1888 EL BANCO AGRICOLA MERCANTIL Pagará al portador y a la vista la cantidad de 1 UNO UN PESO EN MOEDA ACUÑADA León, Nic. Nov. 6 de 1888. American Bank Note Co., New York (Translation: Bank founded by Leonardo Lacayo in 1888 The Mercantile Agricultural Bank It will pay to the bearer and on sight the amount of One Peso in minted currency León, Nic. November 6, 1888. American Bank Note Co., New York) |
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Banco Agrícola Mercantil was one of several Guatemalan private banks operating under the 1874 banking law that allowed commercial institutions to issue their own circulating currency — a privilege that persisted until the Guatemalan government began consolidating note-issuing authority in the early twentieth century. The American Bank Note Company handled production for much of Latin America's private banking sector during this period, and the quality differential between ABNC-printed notes and locally produced alternatives was stark enough that ABNC credentials actively influenced public trust in a note's acceptance.
The S-prefix reference indicates this is catalogued among speciman or private bank issues rather than government emissions — characteristic of Guatemala's fragmented monetary arrangements of the late nineteenth century.