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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco San Fernando |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, New York, USA |
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| Obverse description | Black on green underprint. A seated Indian woman vignette appears at left, with a horse's head vignette at right. The design incorporates intricate guilloche patterns throughout. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, with elaborate guilloche border and lathe-work patterns framing a central blank panel flanked by large numeral 5 counters at left and right. The bank name BANCO SAN FERNANDO arches across the top of the central frame, with CINCO PESOS below. Printer's imprint appears at top and bottom margins. |
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Banco San Fernando was a Chilean private issuing bank operating under the 1860 Banking Law, which permitted provincially chartered institutions to print their own notes against specie reserves. The New York-printed ABNCo plates were a deliberate signal of solvency — Chilean banks of this period commonly commissioned American Bank Note Company to lend their paper an air of international respectability.
By 1899, Chilean private banking was already under pressure. The Conversion Law of 1898 had suspended gold convertibility, and the government was moving steadily toward centralized note issue. San Fernando's window was closing.