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10 Pesos 1 Condor
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1943-1946 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE DIEZ PESOS UN CONDOR 18 - VIII - 1943. CONVERTIBLES EN ORO CONFORME A LA LEY TALLERES DE ESPECIES VALORADAS - SANTIAGO - CHILE (Translation: Central Bank of Chile Ten Pesos One Condor August 18, 1943. Convertible into Gold in Conformity with the Law) |
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Chile's Talleres de Especies Valoradas — the state security printing works in Santiago — had been producing domestic banknotes since the early 1930s, a deliberate move away from foreign contractors like Bradbury Wilkinson that had previously handled Chilean currency production. This note falls squarely within that self-sufficiency push, printed entirely in-house during a period when wartime shipping risks made overseas printing contracts genuinely impractical.
The dual denomination — 10 Pesos and 1 Condor simultaneously — reflects a transitional accounting system that Chile maintained well past the point where most countries had simplified. The Condor unit, pegged at 10 Pesos, persisted on notes into the mid-1940s before the Peso reasserted itself as the sole reference.