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10 Pesos Regent Queen Maria Cristina
| Issuer | El Banco Español de Puerto Rico |
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| Year | 1894-1897 |
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| Currency | Peso (1890-1900) |
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| Obverse description | Black ink on blue and yellow underprint. Portrait of Queen Mother and Regent of Spain, Maria Christina, appears as a vignette at left. A vignette of two coastwatchers is positioned at right, with guilloche patterning filling the central field. |
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| Reverse description | Crowned Spanish royal arms rendered as a central vignette, surrounded by ornamental guilloche borders. |
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El Banco Español de Puerto Rico was the island's sole bank of issue under Spanish colonial administration, and this series was produced by ABNC during a politically volatile period — Spanish sovereignty over Puerto Rico would collapse entirely within a year of the last issue date. Notes bearing the regency title of María Cristina were technically still valid tender when the U.S. military landed in 1898, creating an immediate and messy currency question for the occupation authorities.
The ABNC contract for Puerto Rican colonial paper is one of the more unusual American printing house engagements of the period — a U.S. firm producing sovereign currency for a Spanish colony, shipped across the Atlantic to circulate in the Caribbean.