Catalog
5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Curicó |
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| Year | 1882 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette of a uniformed military figure, flanked by decorative guilloche borders and numeral 5 at each corner. The bank title EL BANCO DE CURICÓ arches across the upper portion, with the place of issue Curicó and promise-to-pay text Pagará al portador a la vista i en Curicó arranged in the lower field. The denomination Cinco Pesos appears in a banner across the center, with MONEDA CORRIENTE below, and the imprint of the American Bank Note Co., New York along the bottom border; a red overprint CINCO D is visible across the note face. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is a uninked or lightly printed impression showing the ghost image of the obverse design in reverse, consistent with an unissued or specimen state; three cancellation punch holes are visible across the lower central area, and the note retains the same guilloche border framework and corner numeral 5 elements as the face. |
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Banco de Curicó was one of Chile's provincial free-banking era institutions, chartered under the 1860 banking law that briefly allowed regional banks to issue their own notes. The system worked until the government nationalized issue authority in 1898, at which point surviving provincial notes were called in — most were redeemed and destroyed, which is why lower-denomination provincial Chilean issues from this period are genuinely difficult to locate today.
The American Bank Note Company held the contract for most Chilean provincial banks simultaneously, producing plates on a shared schedule out of New York. Curicó, a small agricultural town in the Maule region, had no printing infrastructure of its own.