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10 Soles
| Issuer | Banco del Perú |
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| Year | 1874 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DEL PERÚ pagará a la vista y al portador DIEZ SOLES en moneda corriente Lima 1° de Enero de 1874 DIEZ 10 |
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| Signature(s) | J.P. Escobar and César Canevaro |
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Banco del Perú was one of several private commercial banks chartered in Lima during the early 1870s credit boom, a period of guano-revenue optimism that ended badly. By 1877 the bank was in serious difficulty, and the broader collapse of Peru's private banking sector — accelerated by the War of the Pacific beginning in 1879 — rendered most of these notes worthless within a decade of issue.
César Canevaro came from one of the most prominent Italian-Peruvian merchant families in Lima, deeply involved in both finance and guano trading. His signature here is not ceremonial.