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100 Pesos 10 Condores
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1927-1930 |
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| Currency | Old peso (1835-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio on light blue and red-brown guilloche underprint. The bank title BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE arches across the upper field in ornate Gothic script, flanked by large numeral 100 counters at left and right within intricate lathe-work cartouches. A central oval vignette carries the denomination CIEN PESOS / DIEZ CONDORES in raised lettering, with the gold convertibility clause and date 14 de Mayo de 1928 inscribed below, above two manuscript signatures over the titles Presidente and Gerente General, with BILLETE PROVISIONAL and printer imprint at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green throughout. A large circular bank seal occupies the centre, enclosing an engraved condor vignette with radiating guilloche work behind it and the legend BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE / SANTIAGO around the circumference. Symmetrical foliate guilloche medallions to left and right each carry the numeral 100 / CIEN PESOS in bold lettering, and the denomination DIEZ CONDORES appears in a ruled panel along the lower margin, all within a finely engraved lace-pattern border. |
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The 100 Pesos / 10 Condores dual denomination reflects Chile's brief experiment with the Condor as a parallel unit of account — one Condor equalling ten Pesos — introduced under the 1925 monetary reform that also established the Banco Central itself. The Condor unit was never fully adopted in public practice and quietly disappeared from subsequent series.
Talleres de Especies Valoradas, the state security printing works in Santiago, produced the entire run domestically. For a note of this period, that was not the norm in Latin America — most regional central banks were still contracting London or American Bank Note houses well into the 1930s.