Catalog
1000 Pesos 100 Condores
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1933-1943 |
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| Printer | Talleres de Especies Valoradas, Santiago, Chile |
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| Obverse description | Brown on green underprint. Portrait vignette of Manuel Blanco Encalada positioned at right, unaccompanied by a name inscription below the portrait. Guilloche patterns and denomination text frame the composition against the multicolour underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown. A central vignette at left-centre illustrates the Founding of Santiago de Chile, with the bank seal appearing at left. The overall design is rendered in a single-colour intaglio style with restrained ornamentation. |
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Chile's dual-denomination system during this period was a direct consequence of the 1925 monetary reform, which introduced the Condor at a rate of 10 Pesos — meaning this note's face value required two entirely different arithmetic systems to be printed simultaneously, one for daily commerce and one for the gold-anchored unit that never fully took hold in public usage. The Condor was abandoned by 1960 without ever replacing the Peso in practice.
Talleres de Especies Valoradas, the in-house government printing works in Santiago, produced the entire run domestically — unusual for high-denomination Chilean paper of this era, which had frequently relied on Bradbury Wilkinson or similar British security printers. Quality control across the decade-long print run was inconsistent, and serial number spacing irregularities are common across the series.