1 Peso Banco de A. Edwards y Cia

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 metallic reserves. The Edwards family banking empire — built on mining and commercial wealth in Atacama — was among the most financially powerful in nineteenth-century Chile, and their notes circulated widely in the north.

Bradbury Wilkinson engraved and printed the series in London, as was standard practice for Chilean private bank issues of this period. The plates were typically reused across denominations with only the value changed.