Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Libras Peruanas de Oro Iquitos Revolutionary Government
| Issuer | Loreto, Federal State of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | E. T. El Oriente |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Light brown letterpress printing. Central vignette of two soldiers standing at arms with rifles, the numeral 5 repeated at all four corners and along the lateral borders, with the denomination in words printed below the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 5 CHEQUE PROVISIONAL PERU CINCO LIBRAS PERUANAS DE ORO (Translation: Provisional check Peru Five Libras Peruanas de Oro) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Federal State of Loreto's 1921 issue came out of a genuine secessionist moment. The Loreto regionalist movement, frustrated with Lima's chronic neglect of Amazonian infrastructure and commerce, briefly declared a federal state and issued its own currency. The printer, El Oriente, was a local Iquitos newspaper — not a security printer by any definition — which explains the crude typography and variable impression quality typical of this series.
Loreto's geographic isolation made outside printing impossible on short notice, so the revolutionary government worked with what was available on the ground.