Catalog
5 Pesos 1/2 Condor - 'Casa de Moneda'
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1958-1959 |
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| Printer | Casa de Moneda de Chile, Chile |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print on paper. Portrait vignette of Bernardo O'Higgins at right, with bank name and denomination inscriptions framed within guilloche borders. This issue is distinguished from P#110 by the Casa de Moneda de Chile imprint as printer. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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By the late 1950s, Chile's inflation was severe enough that the 5 Peso note had become nearly useless in daily transactions — the denomination was effectively dead money, retained in circulation largely through institutional inertia before the 1960 monetary reform replaced the peso with the escudo at a rate of 1,000 to one. Notes from this period were printed domestically by Casa de Moneda de Chile, the state mint, which had taken over banknote production as a cost-cutting measure during earlier decades of currency pressure.
The P#119 series is among the last 5 Peso issues before the escudo conversion rendered the denomination obsolete.