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1000 Pesetas replica
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Size | 186 x 94 mm |
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| Obverse description | Lower-left vignette bears a portrait of Lope de Vega; the central field carries an allegorical intaglio scene of the Discovery of America with a colonizer and an Indian maiden before a ship in the background. A female allegorical vignette occupies the lower-right corner, with guilloche borders framing the entire composition. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by three oval allegorical vignettes rendered in intaglio: a central standing female figure flanked by two smaller seated female figures representing agriculture and industry, all set within an elaborate guilloche border with the denomination numeral 1000 repeated in each corner. |
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Pick 47 is a known problematic series for collectors precisely because replica and facsimile versions circulate almost as freely as genuine survivors. The 1876 Banco de España 1000 Pesetas issue had an extremely limited original print run, and the FNMT — the same state printing works that produced the originals — later produced official facsimiles for archival and display purposes, which complicates authentication considerably.
This example is cataloged explicitly as a replica. Provenance documentation matters more here than condition.