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| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1970-1971 |
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| Size | 145 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Gray-green, violet-brown, and blue-gray tones over a multicolor underprint, with a portrait vignette of President José Manuel Balmaceda positioned at right. The design incorporates fine guilloche patterning across the face, with the issuing authority and denomination inscribed in the upper and lower registers. The overall composition is rendered in a classical intaglio style typical of mid-twentieth-century Chilean issues. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, violet, and brown, the reverse bears a large central vignette reproducing Pedro Subercaseaux's painting El Abrazo de Maipú, capturing the celebrated embrace between General José de San Martín, mounted at right, and General Bernardo O'Higgins, mounted at left, following the Battle of Maipú on 5 April 1818. The Chilean Coat of Arms appears at right, with the denomination and bank name lettered in the surrounding panels. |
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| Signature(s) | Alfonso Inostroza Cuevas & Jaime Barrios Meza Carlos Massad Abud & Francisco Ibañez Barceló |
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