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1000 Pesetas
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 1886 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The central intaglio vignette, printed in brown, presents three allegorical putti engaged with symbols of commerce, agriculture, and industry — one holds a caduceus at left, a second works at an anvil in the centre, and a third operates a press at right, with sheaves of wheat, an anchor, barrels, and tools scattered across the foreground against a harbour landscape. A richly engraved foliate border encloses the composition, with rampant lions at the upper corners and denomination numerals '1000' within oval cartouches at each corner. The bank title appears in a rectangular panel at the top, with the denomination repeated in text and numerals along the lower margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Salvador Albacete Albert, Julián Llorente Lázaro and Fernando Pérez Casariego |
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The Banco de España's 1886 1000 Pesetas was issued during the period when Spain's central bank still operated under its 1874 monopoly charter — a privilege extracted from the state in exchange for financing government debt. At this tier of denomination, these notes functioned almost entirely in wholesale commercial and treasury transactions; retail circulation was simply beyond the reach of ordinary wage earners.
Surviving examples are genuinely rare. High-denomination notes of this generation were closely tracked, redeemed promptly, and rarely left the banking system intact. Three signatories — representing the governor and two directors — was the authentication standard for the series.