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1 Peso Banco de la Emancipación
| Issuer | Banco de la Emancipación |
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| Year | 1822 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Entirely typeset note with the central denomination statement enclosed within a simple floral or typographic border. The text is arranged in multiple lines in letterpress style, with the serial number and peso value notation in the upper portion and the issuing bank name and date below. |
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| Obverse lettering | N° 179798. P° 1 00 VALE UN PESO EN EL BANCO DE LIMA MAYO 1822. (Translation: N° 179798. P° 1 00 WORTH ONE PESO IN THE BANK OF LIMA MAY 1822.) |
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Banco de la Emancipación was established in Lima shortly after Peruvian independence, making it one of the earliest banking institutions in the newly sovereign republic. The bank was short-lived — it collapsed within a few years of issue, and its notes quickly lost public confidence in a circulation environment already hostile to paper money among a population conditioned to specie.
Pick S143 is among the rarest survivors of early Peruvian private banking, and the institution itself left almost no documentary trail in standard monetary histories.