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10 Pesos 1 Condor
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1943-1946 |
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| Currency | Old peso (1835-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Red-brown intaglio print on a fine guilloche underprint. The vignette at right bears a portrait of General Manuel Bulnes in military uniform, his name inscribed below; a large oval watermark space occupies the left-centre field, flanked by ornate guilloche panels. Two signatures appear at the bottom — those of the Presidente and Gerente General — with the issue date and denomination UN CONDOR inscribed between them. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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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.