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1000 Pesetas
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 1884 |
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| Value | 1000 Pesetas (1000 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-green on a pale ochre guilloche underprint, with the large numeral "1000" at centre framed by elaborate lathe-work rosettes and symmetrical scrollwork cartouches. Vertical panels at left and right each repeat the denomination "1000" in rotated lettering, while the word "PESETAS" appears twice in the lower portion of the central vignette, the whole enclosed within a Greek-key meander border at the outer edges. |
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| Signature(s) | Francisco de Cárdenas, Benito Fariña Cisneros and Fernando Pérez Casariego |
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The Banco de España's 1884 series arrived at a complicated institutional moment — the bank had only recently consolidated its monopoly on note issuance following the 1874 decree that stripped provincial banks of that privilege, and large-denomination notes like this 1,000 pesetas were aimed squarely at commercial and interbank settlement rather than everyday trade. Printed in-house at the Madrid workshop rather than contracted abroad, which was still the dominant practice among European central banks of the period.
Three signatories was the standard governance arrangement: one from the board of governors, one administrative, one from the accounting directorate. Fariña Cisneros served in senior administrative roles at the bank through this decade.