Catalog
20 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1986-1988 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of the façade of the Church of La Compañía de Jesús in Quito occupies the center of the note, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. Numeral denominators appear at left and right within ornate guilloche borders. |
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| Reverse description | The Coat of Arms of Ecuador, in its revised rendition, is centrally placed within an intaglio vignette, surrounded by an elaborate guilloche underprint in brown tones. Numeral 20 appears at all four corners, with the word VEINTE repeated laterally, and the full denomination VEINTE SUCRES inscribed along the lower margin. |
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Ecuador's 20 Sucre notes of this period were issued against a backdrop of severe economic stress — inflation was accelerating sharply through the late 1980s, and the denomination was already losing practical purchasing power faster than the printing cycle could keep pace with. Within a few years, the sucre would require notes in the tens of thousands to conduct ordinary transactions.
Thomas De La Rue's London presses handled the series, with watermark security as the primary anti-counterfeiting measure — modest by contemporary standards, though adequate for a denomination that inflation was rapidly rendering negligible anyway.