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20 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1939-1949 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a warm brown monochrome on a dense guilloche underprint, with the Ecuadorian national coat of arms as the central vignette enclosed within an ornate cartouche of interlocking lathe-work scrolls. The bank name BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR curves along the upper arc of the central oval, with denomination numerals 20 repeated in corner medallions. The legend VEINTE SUCRES appears in a panel at the bottom, above the printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Banco Central del Ecuador began issuing notes through the American Bank Note Company in the 1920s, shortly after the bank's establishment in 1927 — which itself was the direct outcome of a Kemmerer Mission recommendation to consolidate Ecuador's fractured monetary system. This 20 Sucres belongs to a series that spanned a decade of considerable instability, covering World War II and the 1941 conflict with Peru, during which Ecuador lost a substantial portion of its Amazonian territory.
ABNC notes from this period are sometimes found with ink oxidation along the intaglio-printed serial numbers, a known characteristic of certain South American tropical circulation issues from the early 1940s.