Catalog
1 Sol Banco Anglo-Peruano
| Issuer | Banco Anglo-Peruano |
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| Year | 1874 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Dark green letterpress printing. A large central vignette enclosed within an intricate guilloche border presents the combined coats of arms of Great Britain and Peru. The circular central medallion is flanked on each side by ornamental panels bearing the denomination repeated three times, with elaborate rosette cornerpieces at all four corners of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | THE ANGLO-PERUVIAN BANK LIMITED EL BANCO ANGLO-PERUANO SOL · SOL · SOL (Translation: The English-Peruvian Bank) |
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Banco Anglo-Peruano was one of several foreign-backed commercial banks that emerged in Lima during Peru's guano boom, when government credit was flush and private banking expanded rapidly. The bank failed in the crash that followed the War of the Pacific, making notes from the early 1870s survivors of an institution that did not outlast the decade.
Dondorf & Naumann were primarily known for their playing cards and luxury printing — their banknote work was a secondary business, which partly explains why Peruvian provincial collectors occasionally encounter this series with ink adhesion inconsistencies along the face plate margins.