Catalog
1 Sol
| Issuer | Junta Administradora y de Vijilancia de la Emisión Fiscal |
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| Year | 1879 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a sailing ship, with the national name split across the upper and lower margins framing the image; the face value in numerals is positioned to either side of the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | REPÚBLICA 1 1 DEL PERÚ (Translation: Republic 1 1 of Peru) |
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The Junta Administradora y de Vijilancia de la Emisión Fiscal was a supervisory body established by the Peruvian government specifically to oversee the forced paper money emission of 1879 — issued at the outbreak of the War of the Pacific against Chile. The billete fiscal was a wartime fiscal measure, not a conventional banking note, and the government leaned on the ABNC in New York for production precisely because Peru's own infrastructure couldn't support emergency printing at scale.
The archaic spelling "Vijilancia" in the issuing authority's name — rather than the modern "Vigilancia" — pins the typography firmly to the orthographic conventions of the period. This is P#1: the first catalogued issue of the series.