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100 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1971-1977 |
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| Size | 155 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR SOCIEDAD ANONIMA QUITO CIEN SUCRES SERIE GERENTE GENERAL SUBGERENTE DEL BANCO |
| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of the Ecuadorian national coat of arms, flanked by large guilloche numeral 100 panels. The bank title BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR and SOCIEDAD ANONIMA are inscribed at the top, with serial number repeated at upper left and right corners and SERIE designation at the outer margins. The denomination CIEN SUCRES appears along the lower border. |
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Ecuador's central bank relied heavily on Thomas De La Rue throughout the 1970s, and this 100 Sucres note was part of a long-running series that bridged two distinct political periods — the civilian government of Velasco Ibarra's final term and the military junta that deposed him in 1972. The sucre itself had been broadly stable through the early 1970s, but the oil boom following the start of Amazonian petroleum exports in 1972 fundamentally changed Ecuador's monetary dynamics, increasing note circulation volumes considerably.
The watermark is the sole security feature on this issue — modest by contemporary standards, though De La Rue's intaglio printing provided an additional tactile deterrent against counterfeiting that the catalog specification doesn't capture.