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1000 Pesetas
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 1925 |
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| Value | 1000 Pesetas (1000 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Two caryatid columns — sculpted female figures serving as architectural supports — flank a central portrait vignette of King Carlos I of Spain, rendered in intaglio against a finely guilloche-patterned ground. The denomination 1000 appears at each corner and at the centre of the note, with the full text of the payment obligation inscribed across the face. Signature lines for the Governor, Auditor, and Cashier appear at the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 (at corners and at centre) EL BANCO DE ESPAÑA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR MIL PESETAS MADRID, 1º de Julio de 1925 EL GOBERNADOR / EL INTERVENTOR / EL CAJERO (Signatures of Carlos Vergara Cailleaux, Adolfo Castaño Orejón and Bonifacio Burgos Delgado) (Translation: 1000 (at corners and at centre) The Bank of Spain Will pay the bearer One Thousand Pesetas Madrid, 1st of July of 1925 The Governor / The Auditor / The Cashier (Signatures of Carlos Vergara Cailleaux, Adolfo Castaño Orejón and Bonifacio Burgos Delgado)) |
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Bradbury Wilkinson's contract for the 1925 Banco de España series was part of a longer relationship between Spanish monetary authorities and British security printers that predated the Primo de Rivera dictatorship — though the political stability of that regime was precisely what allowed longer-term printing contracts to be renewed without interruption. The three-signature authentication format was standard for high-denomination Spanish issues of this period, with the signatories representing distinct administrative roles within the bank rather than a redundancy check.
The watermark remains the only embedded security feature, modest by contemporary European standards. Bradbury Wilkinson had the technical capacity for far more sophisticated protection at this date, suggesting the specification came from Madrid, not London.