4 Soles

The Banco del Perú was one of several private commercial banks licensed under Peru's 1863 banking law, which permitted note issuance against specie reserves. By 1871, Lima's banking sector was expanding rapidly on the back of guano export revenues — a boom that would prove short-lived. The 4 Soles denomination is an odd unit, rarely chosen by Latin American issuers of the period, suggesting it was calibrated to a specific transactional need rather than a round-number convention.

The Compañía Continental de Billetes de Banco was a New York security printer active in supplying Latin American banks during the 1860s and 1870s, competing directly with the better-known American Bank Note Company. Few of their Latin American commissions survive in quantity.