Catalog
100 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1957-1970 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR SOCIEDAD ANONIMA 100 100 Quito, Mayo 4 de 1970 CIEN SUCRES (Translation: Central Bank of Ecuador, Anonymous Society Quito, May 4th., 1970 One hundred Sucres) |
| Reverse description | The Ecuadorian coat of arms is rendered as the central vignette, flanked by the word CIEN on each side. The issuer's name runs across the top of the note, denomination numerals occupy all four corners and the left and right center margins, and the full value in words appears along the bottom. |
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| Comments |
The Banco Central del Ecuador relied on the American Bank Note Company for virtually all of its mid-century high-denomination printing, and this 100 Sucres note falls squarely within that long-running relationship. ABNC's intaglio work on Ecuadorian issues from this period is consistently fine — the company was at or near its technical peak before the cost-cutting compromises of the 1970s began to show.
The thirteen-year print span across P#105 varieties reflects political and monetary stability that was, for Ecuador, genuinely unusual. The sucre held reasonably well through the late 1950s and 1960s before inflation pressures intensified in the following decade.