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10 Pesos Banco de Santander
| Issuer | Banco de Santander |
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| Year | 1873-1900 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a coiled serpent, with the face value numeral '10' repeated at all four corners and along both sides of the central design. The bank title and promise-to-pay text are rendered in letterpress across the note body, with denomination in words along the lower register. Place of issue and date appear beneath the main text block. |
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| Reverse description | Face value numerals '10' appear on both lateral margins flanking a central guilloche panel. A handstamp revalidation overprint, issued under the Provisional Government Decree No. 6 of 6 January 1900, is applied across the reverse, bearing the authorization text and provision for signatures of the Junta de Emisión members. |
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Banco de Santander was one of the regional Spanish emission banks established under the 1856 banking law, which briefly allowed provincial institutions to issue their own notes before the Banco de España consolidated that privilege in 1874. This note's survival into a date range stretching to 1900 is curious — by law, private bank emission rights had already been extinguished, and outstanding notes were being withdrawn. Late dates on this series likely reflect residual redemption copies or notes held rather than actively circulated.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch had supplied engraved plates to Spanish provincial banks throughout this period, often reusing compositional elements across multiple clients.