10 Pesos 1 Condor

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.