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2 Soles
| Issuer | Banco Garantizador |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Value | 2 Soles |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a seated allegorical female figure, likely representing Commerce or the Republic, set against a dark intaglio-printed background. Hexagonal denomination panels bearing the numeral '2' are positioned at the lower left and right, flanking the bank title 'EL BANCO GARANTIZADOR' in bold curved lettering across the upper portion. The note carries a printed date of Lima, 1 de Setiembre de 1876, with manuscript text, serial number, and multiple handwritten signatures below the central design. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in a rose-red guilloche underprint pattern covering the full surface of the note, with repeated text and lathe-work designs rendered in the same single colour. No central vignette is present; the decorative underprint constitutes the sole design element, typical of the period's security printing practice for Peruvian private bank issues. |
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The Banco Garantizador was one of several private commercial banks granted note-issuing privileges under Peru's 1873 banking law — a liberalization that proved catastrophically mistimed. By 1876, when this note was issued, Peru was already sliding toward the fiscal collapse that the War of the Pacific would later complete. The bank itself did not survive the decade.
Printed locally in Lima rather than abroad, which was uncommon for Peruvian private bank issues of the period — most contemporaries contracted with European or North American firms for their security printing.