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1 Sucre
| Issuer | Banco Comercial y Agrícola |
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| Year | 1895-1896 |
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| Value | 1 Sucre |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio on green and yellow underprint. A reclining allegorical woman with wheel and sheaf appears at left, with a male portrait vignette at center. Capital stock inscription S/2,000,000 appears at right border; similar in design to S126. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, the reverse presents a symmetrical guilloche framework with ornate lathe-work border and a central blank oval medallion flanked by mirrored numeral-1 counters. The bank name arcs across the upper register within the guilloche, with the printer's imprint at the lower margin. |
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The Banco Comercial y Agrícola was a private Guayaquil-based institution that held an outsized role in Ecuadorian monetary affairs during the late nineteenth century — at certain points its notes circulated more widely than those of any nominally official body. The relationship between the bank and the state eventually became a political scandal, contributing directly to the Liberal Revolution of 1895 that brought Eloy Alfaro to power, meaning notes from this exact window of issue changed hands during one of the more turbulent transitions in Ecuadorian history.
ABNC's engraved plates for this series were produced in New York under their standard contract arrangement with South American commercial banks.