Catalog
100 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1887-1926 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DEL ECUADOR COMPAÑÍA ANÓNIMA CAPITAL $1.500.000 GUAYAQUIL VALE CIEN SUCRES EN MONEDA CORRIENTE GERENTES 100 CIEN 100 American Bank Note Co. New York |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing plain cream-coloured cotton paper with no design elements, consistent with a trial or specimen banknote not intended for full production. |
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The Banco del Ecuador was one of several competing private banks of issue operating in Ecuador during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, each legally authorized to print its own currency. This arrangement collapsed definitively in 1927 when the Banco Central del Ecuador was established and the old private circulation notes were called in — giving this series a hard endpoint and explaining why surviving high-denomination examples are genuinely uncommon.
The forty-year date range on P#161A reflects repeated reissue from the same ABNC plates rather than continuous uninterrupted production. Watch for date and signature combinations: not all pairings within the range are equally available, and some authorized signatories served only briefly.