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100 Soles
| Uitgever | Banco La Providencia |
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| Jaar | 1877 |
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| Referentie(s) | P#234 |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | The obverse carries the bold title EL BANCO LA PROVIDENCIA above the country name PERÚ at the top, with large ornate numeral 100 counters at each side. A central vignette presents a stagecoach drawn by four horses in a landscape scene, flanked on the left by an allegorical female figure with a child and cornucopia, and on the right by a caduceus and eagle vignette. The denomination CIEN SOLES is printed in large overprint letters across the centre, with LIMA and the date below, and three signature lines at the foot for PRESIDENTE, DIRECTOR DE TURNO, and GERENTE GENERAL. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | PERÚ EL BANCO LA PROVIDENCIA CIEN SOLES 100 LIMA PRESIDENTE DIRECTOR DE TURNO GERENTE GENERAL |
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| Opmerkingen |
Banco La Providencia was one of several private Peruvian banks authorized to issue currency under the 1877 banking law, a brief window of competitive note-issuance that collapsed almost entirely when the War of the Pacific (1879–1884) devastated the country's financial institutions. Most private bank notes from this period were either repudiated, withdrawn, or simply lost during the wartime disruption, which accounts for the extreme scarcity of surviving high-denomination examples from any issuer in this series.
The American Bank Note Company's Lima-destined commissions from the 1870s are sometimes conflated with contemporaneous issues from neighboring republics — the firm ran similar plate styles across multiple South American clients simultaneously.