Catalogus
| Uitgever | Banco Nacional |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1826 |
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| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Paper |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Typeset note printed in red-brown ink on plain paper. The central panel carries the bold letterpress inscriptions "BANCO." and "VEINTE DECIMOS" within a simple rectangular border. Four corner vignettes display ornamental foliate and acanthus leaf motifs in a symmetrical arrangement, with decorative repeating bead-and-reel guilloche bands running along the horizontal borders. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | No image of the reverse is available. The reverse of this early typeset issue is presumed plain or with minimal printed content consistent with provincial banknote production of the period. |
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| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving beveiliging | Log in om details te zien |
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| Opmerkingen |
Banco Nacional was one of the earliest formal banking institutions established in Latin America, and a 20 Décimos note from 1826 places this squarely in the foundational years of post-independence monetary experimentation across the region. The décimo as a unit reflects the decimal currency reforms that followed the break from Spanish colonial coinage systems, though adoption was uneven and public resistance to paper instruments was considerable.
PS# prefixes in the Pick catalog designate private or state bank issues predating central banking authority — this note falls into that transitional legal gray zone where issuing banks held quasi-governmental status but without formal sovereign backing.