Catalog
5 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1928-1938 |
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| Size | 185 x 100 mm |
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| Obverse description | Dark intaglio-printed note with the bank title 'EL BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR / SOCIEDAD ANONIMA' across the top and 'CAPITAL AUTORIZADO 10,000,000 SUCRES' below; a central vignette of a seated allegorical female figure set against a landscape occupies the middle of the design, flanked on both sides by large numeral '5' counters within ornate guilloche frames. The place and date of issue appear at upper right, while the bearer clause 'PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA CINCO SUCRES EN ORO Ó GIROS-ORO' runs along the lower centre. The printer's imprint 'AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY' appears at the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR CINCO SUCRES AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY 5 |
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The Banco Central del Ecuador was itself newly created when this series began — established by the Kemmerer Mission in 1927, the same U.S.-led monetary reform effort that restructured central banking across much of South America during that decade. The bank absorbed the note-issuing functions of several private commercial banks that had previously flooded Ecuador with competing paper, and this 5 Sucres was among the first issues to carry the new institution's name.
ABNC plates from this period were frequently reused or lightly modified across successive date spans, so the ten-year window covered by P#84 reflects incremental authorization rather than a single print run.