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100 Pesos 10 Condores
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1947-1956 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | DIEZ CONDORES BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE CIEN PESOS CONVERTIBLES EN ORO CONFORME A LA LEY TALLERES DE ESPECIES VALORADAS - SANTIAGO, CHILE (Translation: Ten Condores Central Bank of Chile One Hundred Pesos Convertible into Gold in Conformity with the Law) |
| Reverse description | Printed in red, the reverse is centered on the circular black bank seal of the Banco Central de Chile set against a fine guilloche background, with the denomination legends arranged around the seal. |
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Chile's postwar inflation made the dual denomination necessary — the 100 Pesos figure was the legacy unit, while the 10 Condores reflected the officially preferred accounting currency that the Banco Central had been pushing since the 1920s. Both values were legally equivalent; neither was more authoritative than the other. The Condor had been introduced as a higher unit worth 10 Pesos, and the parallel labeling on this series was a transitional compromise that outlasted anyone's patience — by the mid-1950s the whole framework was heading toward the Escudo reform of 1960.
Printed domestically by the Talleres de Especies Valoradas, the government's own security printing facility in Santiago, rather than farmed out to Waterlow, De La Rue, or ABNC as many Latin American issues were at the time.