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5 Soles Compañía de Obras Públicas y Fomento del Perú
| Issuer | Compañía de Obras Públicas y Fomento del Perú |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Printer | National Bank Note Company, New York City, United States (1861-1872) |
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| Obverse lettering | 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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| Reverse lettering | 5 COMPAÑÍA de OBRAS PÚBLICAS y FOMENTO del PERÚ (Translation: 5 Company of Public Works and Development of Perú) |
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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.