Catalog
1 Sol Banco de la Compañia General del Perú
| Issuer | Banco de la Compañia General del Perú |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio printing on white paper. Upper left vignette portrays a portrait of José Gálvez, flanked by a town with railway scene to the right and a coastal view with a vessel to the left; a steam locomotive vignette occupies the lower center. The issuer's name appears in the upper right, with the face value expressed in numerals at right and in letters across the upper and center portions; two manuscript signatures with printed titles appear on either side of the lower vignette, above a partially pre-printed date line reading Lima ___________1873, with a blue alphabetical series letter and four-digit red serial numbers at lower left and right. |
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| Reverse lettering | UN SOL 1 UN SOL American Bank Note Co New York (Translation: One Sol) |
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The Banco de la Compañía General del Perú was one of several private commercial banks chartered in Lima during the early 1870s credit boom, when Peruvian guano revenues were still sustaining a deceptive prosperity. That boom collapsed with devastating speed — the Peruvian financial crisis of 1872–1873 wiped out or severely weakened several of these institutions before many of their notes had meaningful circulation histories.
ABNC engraved and printed the plates in New York, as was routine for Peruvian provincial and commercial bank issues of this period. Whether significant quantities of S131 ever reached active circulation before the bank's difficulties is an open question.