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The horizontal format note carries a left-side stub panel inscribed BANCO DE TALCA and the denomination $100, while the central field presents an intaglio portrait medallion of a bearded gentleman at lower left, a landscape vignette of El Descabezado volcano at centre, and an allegorical seated female figure with staff at right, all over a fine guilloche underprint. The heading EL BANCO DE TALCA runs across the upper register, with CIEN PESOS in large letterpress type and the legend PAGARÁ A LA VISTA AL PORTADOR below. Signature lines for the Superintendente de la Casa de Moneda and Director Jirente appear in the lower margin, with the imprint of the Compañía Americana de Billetes de Banco, Nueva York. |
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| Descripción del reverso |
The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream-coloured cotton paper surface entirely devoid of vignettes, text, or decorative elements. |
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Banco de Talca was a Chilean regional bank operating under the 1860 Law of Banks, which permitted provincially chartered institutions to issue their own notes — a system that produced a fragmented, competitive currency landscape before the Banco de Chile eventually absorbed or displaced most of them. Talca's bank was among the more durable of these regional issuers, surviving into the 1890s consolidation period.
ABNC's involvement was typical for serious South American issuers of this period who wanted security printing they couldn't obtain domestically. The New York plates would have been engraved with anti-counterfeiting geometry that Chilean facilities simply couldn't replicate.
At 100 Pesos, this was a high-denomination commercial instrument — not everyday currency.