100 Soles Compañia de Obras Públicas y Fomento del Perú

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.