Catalog
1 Sol
| Issuer | Banco Nacional del Perú, Yquique |
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| Currency | Sol (1863-1917) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central vignette of a galloping horse in intaglio engraving, set within an ornate frame at the top centre. To the lower right, a portrait vignette of a male figure in traditional Andean attire is rendered in fine intaglio. Elaborate guilloche rosettes bearing the numeral '1' appear at the left and right margins, and the issuing authority inscription 'LA SUCURSAL EN YQUIQUE DE BANCO NACIONAL DEL PERÚ' runs across the central panel above the denomination statement 'UN SOL'. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA SUCURSAL EN YQUIQUE DE BANCO NACIONAL DEL PERÚ Pagará UN SOL á la vista al portador en moneda corriente Yquique GERENTE EN LIMA GERENTE DE LA SUCURSAL Muestra |
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Iquique — now a Chilean city — was briefly the site of a Peruvian bank branch during the 1870s, when the nitrate-rich Tarapacá region still belonged to Peru. The War of the Pacific (1879–1884) ended that arrangement decisively: Chilean forces occupied Iquique in 1879, and Peruvian banking operations in the city were effectively finished. Notes issued from this branch exist in a narrow window of time, which makes the Iquique suffix on any Banco Nacional del Perú note historically significant rather than merely a branch notation.
P#341 is among the scarcer provincial issues from this bank precisely because the occupation cut the normal circulation and redemption cycle short.