Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Tacna |
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| Year | 1886 |
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| Currency | Peso (1863-1898) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of agricultural workers in the field, rendered in fine intaglio engraving, flanked on the right by a seated allegorical female figure. The bank title EL BANCO DE TACNA appears in bold letterpress across the upper register, with the denomination numeral 10 printed in each upper corner. Serial numbers appear in red at both lower corners, with manuscript signatures of the Director General and Contador positioned across the centre of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE TACNA Pagará al portador a la vista DIEZ moneda de curso corriente Nº Director General Contador |
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Banco de Tacna operated under genuinely unusual geopolitical circumstances: Tacna was a Peruvian city under Chilean military administration following the War of the Pacific, and the bank's concession was granted by Chile rather than Peru. Whether Chilean authorities formally authorized this 1886 emission or whether the bank was operating under an earlier Peruvian charter is not entirely settled in the literature.
S394 is among the rarer entries in the South American provincial catalog. Very few specimens are documented in institutional collections.