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2 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de A. Edwards y Ca. |
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| Year | 1878 |
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| Currency | Peso (1851-1925) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in lilac and black, with a central vignette of a female portrait bust in classical style enclosed within an ornate oval frame. To the left, a counterfoil section bears the denomination and issuer text repeated twice in letterpress. The main note panel carries the full bank title, denomination DOS PESOS in bold guilloche lettering, place and date of issue Valparaíso 2 de Enero de 1878, and serial numbers in both upper corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | DOS DOSPESOS LONDON BANK NOTE |
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Banco de A. Edwards y Cía. was the banking arm of Agustín Edwards Ossandón's commercial empire, one of the most powerful private financial houses in late-19th-century Chile. Private banks in Chile retained the right to issue their own notes until the 1925 monetary reforms under Arturo Alessandri, and the Edwards bank was among the more prolific issuers of the pre-reform period.
The London, Bank Note, & Colour Printing Company — a shorter-lived rival to the dominant Bradbury Wilkinson and Perkins Bacon firms — handled a modest but genuine share of Latin American commissions during the 1870s before fading from the market.