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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 lettering | UNO UN SOL el BANCO de la COMPAÑIA GENERAL DEL PERÚ pagará a la vista UN SOL en moneda corriente JOSÉ GALVEZ Lima ___________1873 GERENTE GERENTE LOS BILLETES DE UN SOL QUE EMITA LA SOCIEDAD Y QUE SERÁN DE SU RESPONSABILIDAD ESTARÁN FIRMADOS POR DOS DE SUS GERENTES. (Translation: One, one Sol The Bank of the General Company of Perú will pay at sight one Sol in common currency Manager The notes of one Sol issued by the Society and that will be of their responsibility, will be signed by two of their Managers) |
| Reverse description | Green intaglio printing. A central steam locomotive vignette is framed above and below by the denomination in full letters, with the face value in numerals on either side of the vignette. The printer's imprint appears along the right edge. |
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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.