Catalog
20 000 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1995-1999 |
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| Value | 20 000 Sucres (20 000 ECS) |
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| Reverse description | The Ecuadorian national arms form the central vignette, set within elaborate guilloche scrollwork and decorative cornucopia motifs rendered in brown, blue and multicolour. A large guilloche panel at left carries the denomination numeral 20000, while the bank title runs along the upper border and the value in words appears along the lower border. |
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| Protection description | Watermark portrait of Dr. Gabriel García Moreno |
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| Comments |
Ecuador's sucre spent most of the 1990s under siege from chronic inflation, and the 20,000-sucre denomination reflects just how far things had deteriorated — the note required issuing at a face value that would have been unthinkable a decade earlier. The Central Bank printed just over twelve million pieces across the four-year run, a relatively constrained quantity that suggests the denomination was superseded by even higher-value notes rather than retired through normal attrition.
The sucre itself was abolished in January 2000 when Ecuador dollarized, making this one of the last high-denomination notes in the currency's history before the entire series became obsolete overnight.