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1 Sol Compañia de Obras Públicas y Fomento del Perú
| Issuer | Compañía de Obras Públicas y Fomento del Perú |
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| Year | 1876-1877 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black on green guilloche underprint. Central intaglio vignette of a steam locomotive named 'PROGRESS' in a landscape setting; issuer's title in ornate script across the top. Numeral '1' counters at lower left and upper right within lathe-work medallions; date 'Lima, 4 de Julio de 1876' below the vignette with two manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green. A large central guilloche medallion of geometric lathe-work bears the issuer's name in bold lettering within a multi-pointed star cartouche. Numeral '1' counters flank the medallion on each side, and 'UN SOL' repeated in the border underprint frames the design on all four sides. |
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The Compañía de Obras Públicas y Fomento del Perú was a private concession company granted sweeping infrastructure rights by the Peruvian government during the Dreyfus era, when the state was increasingly offloading public works obligations onto foreign-backed contractors. This note was issued as the company's own circulating scrip — not a government emission, though the line between the two was deliberately blurred during Peru's guano-revenue collapse of the mid-1870s.
National Bank Note Company of New York produced the plates, the same firm behind many South American fractional and emergency issues of the period. The 1876–1877 window places this squarely in Peru's slide toward the fiscal crisis that preceded the War of the Pacific.