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40 Centavos Banco Anglo-Peruano
| Issuer | Banco Anglo-Peruano |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Value | 40 Centavos (0.40 PEH) |
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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.) |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red, the reverse is dominated by two central heraldic vignettes side by side: at left, the Royal Arms of Great Britain rendered in fine intaglio engraving; at right, the coat of arms of Peru. The denomination numeral "40" appears in guilloche panels at both lateral margins, the bank name is inscribed on a ribbon cartouche at the top, and the full denomination in words runs across the lower panel, with the printer's imprint below. |
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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.