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5 Pesos 1/2 Condor
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1944-1958 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue, the reverse is dominated by a large intaglio numeral '5' at left, set against a finely ruled guilloche panel that occupies the central field. A small circular Banco Central de Chile seal bearing the bank's emblem and the inscription 'SANTIAGO' is positioned at the right, with the denomination legend 'CINCO PESOS' inscribed along the lower border within a decorative frame. |
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| Protection description | Portrait of Diego Portales |
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Chile's Talleres de Especies Valoradas — the state security printing works in Santiago — produced this entire series domestically, which was still something of a point of institutional pride for the Banco Central in the postwar period, when many Latin American central banks still depended on Bradbury Wilkinson, ABNC, or similar foreign houses for their currency production.
The fourteen-year span of this issue coincides almost exactly with Chile's most turbulent inflationary stretch before the 1959–1962 monetary reform, which replaced the peso at a rate of 1,000 to 1 and introduced the escudo. By the late 1950s, notes of this denomination had largely lost practical utility.