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100 Pesos 10 Condores
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1943-1948 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red, the obverse carries a portrait vignette of naval hero Arturo Prat at right, identified by the inscription A. PRAT beneath. The design is framed by guilloche borders with denomination numerals at corners, and the central field bears the issuing authority's title and gold convertibility clause in letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate guilloche vignette at left bearing the large numeral 100, balanced by an oval guilloche medallion at right. A circular black bank seal of the Banco Central de Chile, inscribed SANTIAGO, is struck at center, with the denomination CIEN PESOS in a decorative panel along the lower border and the issuer's title across the top. |
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The dual denomination — 100 Pesos and 10 Condores simultaneously — reflects Chile's awkward transitional monetary arithmetic of the period, where the Condor (worth 10 Pesos) had been introduced as a unit of account in 1925 but never fully displaced the Peso in everyday use. Both values were legally valid and co-printed on the same note, a compromise that persisted until the Condor was quietly abandoned.
Arturo Maschke Tornero's signature appears across both date combinations in this series, his tenure at the Banco Central spanning the entire issue window. Talleres de Especies Valoradas, the Chilean state security printing works, handled the full production domestically — relatively unusual for South American issues of this period, which more often relied on American Bank Note or Waterlow.