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40 Centavos Banco Anglo-Peruano
| Issuer | Banco Anglo-Peruano |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Size | 98 x 46 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress printing on a red guilloche underprint. The bank name arches across the top, with the face value numeral flanking both sides; the promise-to-pay text and place and date of issue appear at centre, with red serial numbers at right. The printer's imprint is set along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 40 EL BANCO ANGLO-PERUANO Pagará á la vista y al portador Cuarenta Centavos en moneda corriente. Lima é Iquique, Julio 1º de 1875. DIRECTORES Compañía Nacional de Billetes de Banco Nueva York (Translation: The Anglo-Peruvian Bank will pay at sight to bearer Forty Cents in circulating currency. Lima and Iquique, July 1st, 1875. Directors. National Bank Note Company, New York.) |
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The Banco Anglo-Peruano was a British-backed commercial bank operating in Lima, and this 40 centavos fractional note reflects the severe small-change shortage that plagued Peru's coastal commercial economy in the early 1870s. Fractional paper from private banks was not the preferred solution — it was the available one. The National Bank Note Company had by this period built a reliable trade supplying engraved security printing to Latin American issuers who lacked domestic facilities.
The 40 centavos denomination is an oddity even within Peruvian fractional issues of the period.