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10 000 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1988-1999 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Vicente Rocafuerte in military dress, positioned at left center against a geometric guilloche underprint in terracotta and pale orange tones, with his name inscribed vertically alongside. The denomination numeral 10,000 appears in large red figures at far left, while the bank title BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR and the denomination legend DIEZ MIL SUCRES are letterpress-printed to the right, accompanied by the issue date and two signature panels for the Gerente General and Superintendente de Bancos. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Independence monument (Plaza de la Independencia) in Quito at center right, rendered in fine intaglio line work, with the national coat of arms at left center set against a multicolored guilloche underprint. The overall color scheme continues the terracotta and brown tones of the obverse, with the denomination and bank title repeated in the border legends. |
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Ecuador's 10,000 Sucre note arrived as the currency was already losing ground to inflation at a rate that would ultimately make the denomination obsolete within a decade. The Sucre, named after independence hero Antonio José de Sucre, had been Ecuador's monetary unit since 1884 — by the late 1990s, hyperinflationary pressure had so eroded its value that 10,000 units bought almost nothing. The government's eventual response was drastic: in 2000, Ecuador abandoned the Sucre entirely and officially dollarized, fixing the exchange rate at 25,000 Sucres to one US dollar.
The print run of just over 12 million is modest given the eleven-year issue span, suggesting periodic rather than continuous printing. Security on this series is minimal — watermark only, with no security thread — which reflects both the production costs acceptable at the time and the diminishing incentive to invest in anti-counterfeiting measures for a denomination with a shrinking real-world value.