Catalog
100 Pesos
| Issuer | República de Chile |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, New York, United States |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 REPUBLICA DE CHILE 100 Vale Por CIEN PESOS Convertible en Oro o Plata Por el Estado conforme a la Ley SANTIAGO AmericanBankNoteCo.NewYork (Translation: Republic of Chile Worth for One Hundred Pesos Convertible into Gold or Silver by the State in accordance with the Law Santiago) |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 ✰REPUBLICA✰DE CHILE✰ ESTE BILLETE ES MONEDA LEGAL PARA LA SOLUCION DE TODA ESPECIE DE OBLIGACIONES CUALES QUIERA QUE SEAN SU FECHA I LOS TERMINOS EN QUE ESTEN OTORGADOS. LEI DE 10 DE ABRIL DE 1879. AmericanBankNoteCo.NewYork (Translation: Republic of Chile This banknote is legal currency for the settlement of all manner of obligations, whatever their date and the terms under which they are granted. Law of April 10, 1879) |
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Chile's 1881 100 Pesos was issued by the República de Chile directly — not through the Banco Central, which didn't exist until 1925 — during the War of the Pacific, when the country was simultaneously occupying Lima and managing the fiscal strain of a prolonged military campaign against Peru and Bolivia. The government had suspended silver convertibility in 1878, and these notes circulated under that inconvertibility regime.
ABNC's New York presses handled Chilean government paper across several denominations in this period, a common arrangement for South American republics lacking domestic intaglio capacity.