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| Emittent | Compañía de Obras Públicas y Fomento del Perú |
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| Jahr | 1876 |
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| Größe | 155 × 73 mm |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Central vignette of a steam locomotive in motion, flanked by the face value numeral 5 in the upper corners. The issuer's name arcs across the centre field, with the denomination in words positioned below. Series letter and serial numbers appear in black at the upper margin and lateral positions respectively; the place and date of issue are inscribed at the lower centre, with the signatures of the Director and President along the bottom edge. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | Serie A 5 La Compañia de Obras Publicas y Fomento del Perú Pagará a la vista Cinco Soles al portador en moneda corriente. Lima, Julio 4 de 1876. (Translation: Serie A 5 The Company of Public Works and Development of Perú will pay at sight five Soles to the bearer in regular currency. Lima, July 4th., 1876.) |
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The Compañía de Obras Públicas y Fomento del Perú was a private infrastructure concessionaire operating under contract with the Peruvian government during the brief, chaotic window between the country's guano-financed boom and its fiscal collapse. By 1876 that collapse was essentially underway — Peru was defaulting on its foreign debt, and the government was desperately monetizing anything it could. Private company scrip filling gaps in the circulating medium was less a convenience than a symptom.
The National Bank Note Company attribution is worth scrutiny here: that firm merged into the American Bank Note Company in 1879, meaning plates designed under the NBNC name were routinely transferred and reused afterward.