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20 Pesos Banco de Curicó
| Issuer | Banco de Curicó |
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| Year | 1882 |
| Type | Non-issued banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, an allegorical female vignette representing Agriculture stands beside a large numeral 20. At center, an intaglio portrait of naval hero Arturo Prat is framed within an oval medallion, with the payment text inscribed to its right. At right, a detailed architectural vignette of the Banco de Curicó building is rendered in fine line engraving, flanked by the Chilean coat of arms; large guilloche numerals and the denomination legend 'VEINTE PESOS' appear across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE CURICO VEINTE PESOS AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY NEW YORK (Translation: CURICO BANK TWENTY PESOS AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY NEW YORK) |
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The Banco de Curicó was one of Chile's provincial free-banking era institutions, operating under the Ley de Bancos of 1860 which permitted regional banks to issue their own notes backed by metallic reserves held with the government. ABNC engraved and printed paper for dozens of Latin American clients during this period, supplying finished sheets to issuers who often lacked domestic printing infrastructure capable of the intaglio security work.
The "r" suffix in the Pick reference denotes a remainder — unissued stock, never signed or serialled, returned or retained rather than put into circulation. Curicó province was a wine and agricultural center; whether the bank ever fully distributed its authorized note supply is unclear from surviving records.