5 Pesos ABNC print

Chile's P#19 was produced during the country's prolonged paper money crisis — the so-called "cuestión del papel moneda" — in which the government repeatedly suspended convertibility, leaving the peso floating without a metallic anchor for decades. The ABNC contract for this series was part of a broader effort to impose visual credibility on a currency the public had good reason to distrust.

The decade-long issue window, 1906 to 1916, means examples can vary significantly in their handwritten date completions and cashier signatures. Identifying the specific signing official can help narrow the date range more precisely than the printed year alone.