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| 正面铭文 | 25 EL BANCO ESPAÑOL DE LA HABANA á la presentación de este billete pagará al portador VEINTE Y CINCO pesos fuertes en efectivo. Habana, 18 de Fbro 1889 (Translation: The Spanish Bank of Havana Upon presentation of this note, the bearer will be paid Twenty Five Pesos fuertes in cash. Havana, February 18, 1889.) |
| 背面描述 | The reverse is unprinted, left blank by the issuer. Show-through of the obverse intaglio impression is visible on the plain paper stock, and a partial pink cancellation stamp is present at the right edge. |
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Banco Español de la Habana occupied a peculiar institutional position — chartered in 1856 under Spanish colonial authority, it held a monopoly on note issue in Cuba while simultaneously acting as the colonial treasury's primary financing mechanism. By 1889, that relationship had become strained: the bank was carrying substantial Cuban public debt on its books, much of it accumulated through Spain's military expenditures suppressing the Ten Years' War, which had ended a decade earlier but left lasting fiscal damage.
Bradbury Wilkinson supplied the printed sheets from their London works across the entire 1872–1891 run of this series, with dates and serial numbers completed locally in Havana. The bank collapsed in 1898 following Cuban independence, leaving large quantities of its notes unredeemed.