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| 表面の説明 | Printed in black and red, the obverse presents a richly engraved composition in the American Bank Note Company style, with a central harbor vignette of a sailing vessel entering Havana bay before the Morro Castle. Flanking allegorical female figures are seated with a cornucopia and a staff, while subordinate vignettes depict a tobacco plant, royal palms, a sugar mill with smokestacks, and oxen hauling a cart laden with sugar cane. Denomination numerals and the issuing bank's title appear within the typeset text block. |
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| 表面の銘文 | 100 EL BANCO ESPAÑOL DE LA HABANA á la presentación de este billete pagará al portador CIEN pesos fuertes en efectivo. Habana, 17 de Marzo de 1874. (Translation: The Spanish Bank of Havana Upon presentation of this note, the bearer will be paid One Hundred Pesos Fuertes in cash. Havana, March 17, 1874.) |
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The Banco Español de la Habana occupied an unusual position: it functioned as both a commercial institution and, effectively, the colonial treasury's instrument in Cuba, operating under Spanish authority during a period when the island was locked in the Ten Years' War — the first major independence conflict, which ran from 1868 to 1878. Financing the Spanish military presence in Cuba while simultaneously maintaining public confidence in paper currency was a genuine contradiction, and it showed in how cautiously these higher denominations were managed.
The American Bank Note Company handled this series from New York, a routine arrangement for Latin American and Caribbean issuers of the period who wanted intaglio security printing beyond what local facilities could provide. ABNC's involvement does not automatically indicate quality survival rates — Cuban colonial notes at this denomination were redeemed aggressively after the monetary reorganizations that followed the Zanjón peace settlement in 1878.