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| Emittent | Banco Sur Americano |
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| Jahr | 1920 |
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| Nennwert | 1 Sucre (1 ECS) |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Central vignette of Christopher Columbus's three caravels — Santa María, La Pinta, and La Niña — under sail on the open sea, rendered in detailed intaglio engraving. The denomination numeral '1' appears in guilloche medallions at both sides and in the lower corners of the note. The bank title is displayed across the upper portion within an ornate border frame. |
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| Beschreibung der Sicherheitsmerkmale | BANCO SUR AMERICANO and numeral 1 repeated twice, each within a circle, positioned to the left and right of centre. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Banco Sur Americano was one of several private Ecuadorian banks authorized to issue currency under the country's free banking arrangements that persisted into the early twentieth century. The bank operated out of Guayaquil, a port city that consistently rivaled Quito as the center of Ecuadorian commercial life, and its notes circulated primarily in the coastal trading zones rather than through any national clearing system.
By 1927, the Ley Orgánica de Bancos and the establishment of the Banco Central del Ecuador ended private note issue entirely, rendering all such commercial bank obligations void as currency. Surviving examples of P#S251 are genuinely scarce — not because of high face value, but because low-denomination private issues were redeemed aggressively or simply discarded.