Catalog
1 Sol
| Issuer | Banco de Piura |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S371 |
| Obverse description | The heading 'EL BANCO DE PIURA' appears across the top, flanked at left and right by oval cartouches each enclosing the denomination numeral '1'; two allegorical intaglio vignettes occupy the lateral fields — a seated female figure with agricultural attributes at left and a standing male figure at right. The central text panel carries the handwritten promise-to-pay clause 'pagará a la vista al portador' above the large letterpress legend 'UN SOL', with the issue date 'Piura 1° de Diciembre de 1873' and ruled signature lines for the Director Turno and Directores Generales below. The printer's imprint 'Giesecke & Devrient Leipzig en Alemania fabricantes' appears in the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE PIURA pagará a la vista al portador UN SOL en moneda corriente Piura 1° de Diciembre de 1873 DIRECTOR TURNO DIRECTORES GENERALES UN SOL • UN SOL • UN SOL Giesecke & Devrient Leipzig en Alemania fabricantes |
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Banco de Piura was one of several regional Peruvian banks granted note-issuing rights under the 1873 banking law, which opened the field to provincial institutions far from Lima's financial center. The bank was based in Piura, a northern coastal city whose economy ran on cotton and trade — a modest operation by any measure, which is why surviving notes from this issuer are genuinely uncommon.
Giesecke & Devrient had only recently established themselves as a serious security printer at this point, having been founded in Leipzig in 1852. This note is among their earlier Latin American commissions.