100 Pesos

Banco del Perú was a short-lived private institution, founded in 1863 and absorbed into the Banco de Lima by 1870. Its note issue was correspondingly brief, and the S353 sits within that narrow window before Peru's banking sector consolidated under pressure from the guano-boom credit expansion and subsequent contraction.

American Bank Note Company produced this during its early period of dominance in Latin American government and private bank contracts — a near-monopoly position it had been building since the 1850s. The engraving quality on ABNC work of this period is consistently high, which makes condition assessment more reliable than with contemporaneous European-printed issues.

Private bank notes of this era were frequently redeemed and destroyed; survivors are uncommon.