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100 Soles Compañia de Obras Públicas y Fomento del Perú
| Issuer | Compañía de Obras Públicas y Fomento del Perú |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Value | 100 Soles (100 PEH) |
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| Obverse description | A steam locomotive vignette occupies the left portion of the note, with the issuer's full title arched across the top. The place and date of issue appear below center, flanked by black series letters and red serial numbers at either side. Two manuscript signatures of the Director and President appear at lower left and right respectively, below the promise-to-pay text. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in brown and is covered with an intricate guilloche pattern of repeated floral and foliate motifs filling the entire field. A large central medallion formed by an engine-turned circular guilloche bears the denomination "CIEN SOLES" on a ribbon scroll, encircled by the issuer's name in full. Numerals "100" appear in guilloche cartouches at the left and right flanks, with the printer's imprint in small text at the bottom margin on both sides. |
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The Compañía de Obras Públicas y Fomento del Perú was a private concession company granted sweeping infrastructure rights by the Peruvian government in the early 1870s, operating under the broader framework of the Dreyfus Contract era, when Lima was attempting to convert guano revenues into railways and public works. The company's note-issuing privilege was unusual — this was not a bank but a construction and development concessionaire with quasi-monetary powers, a product of Peru's short-lived and chaotic experiment with privately issued fiduciary currency before the War of the Pacific collapsed the entire system.
The National Bank Note Company engraved and printed this series in New York, the same firm responsible for early U.S. federal currency and a favored contractor for Latin American governments throughout the 1870s.