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10 Centavos Iquitos Revolutionary Government
| Issuer | Loreto, Federal State of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Sol (1863-1930) / Sol de Oro (1931-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress printing on a host note (N# 278611 obverse; P# S604), with a red overprint modifying the face value in both numerals and letters. A vignette of a Native American figure faces left at centre, with the face value in numerals repeated in all four corners and along the sides of the vignette, and spelled out in full below it. Issuing place and date appear at lower left and right, accompanied by a red series designation at lower right and a four-digit red serial number at lower left; two manuscript signatures with printed titles appear below the central design. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 CHEQUE PROVISIONAL DE CIRCULACION FORZOSA EMITIDO CON LA GARANTIA DE LA DEUDA DEL ESTADO, RENTAS FISCALES Y DEPARTAMENTALES IQUITOS, 1º DE OCTUBRE 1921 UN SOL SERIE B N° 9738 CAP. JEFE POLITICO Y MILITAR ADMOR. DE LA ADUANA VALE 10 CTVS. (Translation: Provisional check of compelled circulation, issued with the guarantee of the State Debt, Tax and Departmental rents Iquitos October 1st., 1921 Captain Political and Military Chief Manager of the Custom House Valid for 10 Cents.) |
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The Federal State of Loreto's 1921 emergency issues are among the more obscure separatist currency episodes in South American history. Iquitos, deep in the Peruvian Amazon and effectively isolated from Lima by geography, had a long history of autonomous impulse — the rubber boom had made it briefly wealthy and largely self-sufficient, and political grievances periodically bubbled into open defiance of the central government.
El Oriente was the local newspaper press; that a regional broadsheet printer was producing currency tells you everything about the circumstances under which this note came into existence.