Catalog
1 Real de Inca
| Issuer | Banco de la Compañía General del Perú |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Reference(s) | P#11 |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA COMPAÑÍA GENERAL DEL PERÚ UN SOL JOSÉ GALVEZ Lima GERENTE |
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| Reverse lettering | UN SOL UN SOL |
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Banco de la Compañía General del Perú was a short-lived commercial bank caught directly in the path of the War of the Pacific. By 1881, Chilean forces occupied Lima, the Peruvian government had collapsed, and most banking institutions had either suspended operations or fled the capital. Notes issued in this period existed in a legal and commercial vacuum — there was no functioning state to back them, and no guarantee anyone would accept them.
Pick 11 is among the rarest survivors from this bank's brief existence. The combination of wartime disruption and the bank's subsequent failure meant most notes were never redeemed and simply disappeared from the record.