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100 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Value | 100 Sucres |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple-brown tones, the obverse centres on an intaglio portrait vignette of Simón Bolívar in military uniform, flanked by ornate guilloche panels bearing the numeral 100 in each corner. The bank title BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR and the subtitle SOCIEDAD ANÓNIMA appear in letterpress across the top, with the place of issue QUITO inscribed at the lower left and the denomination legend CIEN SUCRES running along the bottom panel. Signature title lines for the Gerente General and Superintendente are printed below the central vignette, with the printer's imprint of the American Bank Note Company at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR 100 CIEN CIEN SUCRES AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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The Banco Central del Ecuador had been issuing sucre-denominated notes through ABNC for decades by the time this series appeared, a relationship that stretched back to the 1940s. By 1980, Ecuador was riding an oil boom that had begun following its entry into OPEC in 1973, and high-denomination notes like this were increasingly common in daily commerce as inflation eroded the currency's purchasing power through the decade.
Pick 112A distinguishes itself from closely related issues by the signature combination — a detail that trips up collectors who treat the 112 series as interchangeable.