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100 Incas
| Issuer | República del Perú |
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| Year | 1881 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress printing on white paper. A seated allegorical male figure (Mercury) occupies the left vignette, with a seated allegorical female figure at right; a condor appears at top center. The face value and issuing authority legends are arranged within the central text panel. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress printing with an overall pattern of geometric guilloche designs filling the note field, providing a decorative underprint without figurative vignettes. |
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The Inca denomination series was introduced by the Perú provisional government during the War of the Pacific, when Chilean forces occupied Lima and the country's financial infrastructure had effectively collapsed. Issuing paper currency under occupation required a functional printing operation, and the Eugenio Abele firm — a Lima-based typographic house rather than a specialist banknote printer — was one of the few available options. The result is a note produced with commercial printing equipment, not the intaglio presses of London or Paris.
The "Inca" as a monetary unit was short-lived, tied entirely to the emergency conditions of 1881–1882 and never adopted into Peru's permanent currency structure.