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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco del Pobre |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CHILE Santiago de Chile BANCO DEL POBRE UN PESO Pagará UN PESO al portador a la vista UNO |
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| Reverse lettering | UN PESO UN PESO UN PESO |
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Banco del Pobre — "Bank of the Poor" — was a Chilean savings institution, and its note issue was a relatively brief commercial venture rather than a formal state banking operation. The American Bank Note Company produced the plates in New York, as it did for a significant portion of Latin American private bank paper during this period, when domestic printing infrastructure across the region could not match intaglio quality.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference places this firmly in the Specialized volume's Chilean private bank section — not mainstream circulation currency. Surviving examples are genuinely scarce.