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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional del Perú |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO NACIONAL DEL PERU DIEZ 10 DIEZ 10 DIEZ Pagará a la vista al portador EN MONEDA DIEZ CENTAVOS CORRIENTE Lima Enero 1o de 1873. Gerente Gerente American Bank Note Co. New York |
| Reverse description | Executed entirely in green intaglio, the reverse presents two large guilloche rosettes bearing the numeral '10', flanking a central ornate cartouche inscribed 'EL BANCO NACIONAL DEL PERU' in elaborate script lettering. A dense geometric lathe-work border frames the entire composition, with 'CENTAVOS' lettered vertically along each lateral margin. The printer's imprint 'American Bank Note Co. New York' appears along the lower margin. |
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The Banco Nacional del Perú was a short-lived institution, chartered in 1872 with backing from a consortium of Lima merchants and operating for only a handful of years before Peru's fiscal catastrophe — the War of the Pacific and the collapse of guano revenues — swept away most of the country's private banking infrastructure. This 10 centavos note is among the lowest denominations the bank issued, intended to address the chronic shortage of fractional currency that plagued everyday commerce throughout the Andean republics in this period.
ABNC produced the plates in New York, as was standard for Lima's better-capitalized banks in the 1870s, who found domestic printing options inadequate for security purposes. The series is genuinely scarce in any grade — the bank's brief operational window and subsequent dissolution left little in the way of surviving paper.