Catalog
5 Soles
| Issuer | Banco Nacional del Perú, Tacna |
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| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre guilloche underprint dominates the face, with a central pastoral vignette of llamas and alpacas attended by a figure in traditional Andean dress. A portrait of a young indigenous woman in native costume occupies the lower left, while a portrait of a young girl appears at the lower right. The denomination numeral '5' is rendered in large intaglio print at upper left and upper right corners, with the issuing branch overprint 'LA SUCURSAL EN TACNA DE' arching across the top. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA SUCURSAL EN TACNA DE EL BANCO NACIONAL DEL PERU CINCO SOLES Pagará á la vista al portador en moneda corriente GERENTE EN LIMA GERENTE DE LA SUCURSAL CINCO • CINCO • CINCO • CINCO American Bank Note Co. New York |
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The Banco Nacional del Perú was established in 1873 and became the government's preferred issuing institution during the fiscally turbulent years leading into the War of the Pacific. The Tacna branch designation on this note is historically charged: Tacna was occupied by Chilean forces from 1880 and remained under Chilean administration until 1929, making any branch-specific Peruvian paper from that region a product of a world that was about to be violently interrupted.
ABNC printed the series in New York well before the occupation, so surviving examples predate the conflict. How many reached circulation before the Chilean advance cut off normal banking operations in the south is unknown.