Catalog
100 Soles
| Issuer | El Banco de Tacna |
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| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown and black intaglio on a golden-tan guilloche underprint. A central vignette presents a classical allegorical figure — a seated male in antique drapery raising a cup — framed by ornate lathe-work borders. The denomination "100" appears in large numerals within decorative rosettes at both left and right, with the issuer's title "EL BANCO DE TACNA" arched across the top in bold letterpress. Below the vignette, the promise-to-pay legend reads "Pagará al portador a la vista CIEN SOLES en moneda corriente," with serial number panels printed twice in the upper field, and signature lines for Director-Gerente and Contador at the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE TACNA 100 No. 001804 Pagará al portador a la vista CIEN SOLES en moneda corriente Director-Gerente Contador |
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El Banco de Tacna operated under genuinely unusual geopolitical conditions. Tacna was a Peruvian city occupied by Chile following the War of the Pacific (1879–1884), and the Chilean administration governed the territory for decades — the region wasn't returned to Peru until 1929. A Peruvian-denominated bank issuing soles during Chilean occupation puts this note squarely inside that contested, legally murky period.
Relatively little is documented about the bank's printing arrangements or the full scope of its issue, which makes surviving examples of the higher denominations scarcer in the record than the institutional history alone would suggest.