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1000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Español de la Habana |
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| Year | 1869-1870 |
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| Shape | Rectangular (hand cut) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 EL BANCO ESPAÑOL DE LA HABANA á la presentación de este billete pagará al portador MIL pesos fuertes en efectivo. Habana, 26 de Enero de 1870. (Translation: The Spanish Bank of Havana Upon presentation of this note, the bearer will be paid One Thousand Pesos Fuertes in cash. Havana, January 26, 1870.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted on its face but bears several cancellation markings applied at time of demonetization: two large handwritten diagonal "Inútil" (Void) inscriptions crossing the note in ink, a circular official purple control stamp at centre reading "1000" with surrounding anti-counterfeiting legend, three punch-hole cancellations along the lower edge, and multiple handwritten signatures and oval blind-stamp impressions of bank officials confirming cancellation. |
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The Banco Español de la Habana occupied an unusual position: a Spanish colonial institution printing its highest-denomination notes through an American firm in New York, at the very moment Cuba's Ten Years' War was tearing the island apart. The rebellion began in October 1868, and these notes were issued directly into that instability — the 1000 Peso denomination would have moved almost exclusively among merchants and colonial administrators, not ordinary Cubans.
ABNC's involvement was purely commercial; several Latin American and Caribbean issuers used them simultaneously, and the same New York presses were producing notes for governments on both sides of various conflicts without particular scruple.