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1000 Pesos
| Issuer | El Banco Español de la Habana |
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| Year | 1872-1887 |
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| Reference(s) | P#26 |
| Obverse description | Central vignette with portrait of Queen Isabella I of Castile at upper center, set within fine engraved guilloche work. Note is uniface with multiple signature varieties. Text and denomination rendered in intaglio. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface note; reverse is unprinted. |
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El Banco Español de la Habana was the only bank of issue in Cuba during the colonial period, operating under a Spanish royal charter first granted in 1856. By the 1870s, the island's sugar economy was under severe strain — the Ten Years' War (1868–1878) had devastated the eastern provinces, and confidence in paper currency was fragile throughout the series' issue window.
Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. handled production in London, a common arrangement for Spanish colonial currency where metropolitan oversight extended even to the physical manufacture of notes. At the 1000 Pesos denomination, actual circulation was almost certainly limited — notes of this value in colonial Cuba functioned primarily in wholesale trade and interbank settlement rather than everyday commerce.