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5 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1899-1926 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | Green on pale underprint. Central panel bears the bank name BANCO DEL ECUADOR in bold letterpress, flanked by ornate guilloche rosettes and lathe-work scrollwork. Denomination numeral 5 appears in each corner; imprint of American Bank Note Company, New York at bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DEL ECUADOR AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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The Banco del Ecuador was one of several private banks of issue operating in Ecuador during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, before the Caja Central de Emisión y Amortización consolidated note-issuing authority in 1927. That transition effectively ended this series. The ABNC plates for Ecuadorian private bank notes from this period were often shared or adapted across multiple denominations and even multiple clients, a cost-saving practice that makes attribution of specific design elements unreliable without consulting the company's own archive records in New York.
The 1914 banking crisis in Ecuador severely disrupted convertibility across all private issuers, and notes from this series circulated under forced-tender conditions well past any reasonable expectation of redemption. Survivors from the early part of the date range show considerably heavier wear than those from the final years.