Catalog
5 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1940-1949 |
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| Value | 5 Sucres (5 ECS) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a seated allegorical female figure representing abundance, holding a sheaf of grain and resting beside a basket of harvest fruits, rendered in intaglio against a guilloche underprint. Large numeral '5' appears in ornate panels to the left and right of the central vignette. Series letters 'FB' are printed in the lower corners of each numeral panel, with the issuing bank title across the top and payment obligation text along the lower margin. |
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| Variants | P#91a - 12.03.1940 - 28.11.1941 signature title at right: "Tesorero de Reserva" P#91b - 03.02.1945 - 01.04.1947 signature title at right: overprint "Gerente General" P#91c - 1947 - 21.06.1949 / 21.10.1947 signature title at right: "Gerente General" |
| Comments |
The Banco Central del Ecuador was only a decade old when this series entered circulation — founded in 1927 under pressure from the Kemmerer Mission, the bank replaced a chaotic patchwork of private issuers that had plagued Ecuador's monetary system since the nineteenth century. The American Bank Note Company held the printing contract throughout this period, a relationship that gave Ecuadorian currency a consistency of technical quality that the earlier private-bank issues rarely achieved.
Pick 91 spans a full decade, meaning individual notes within the type can show considerable variation in serial prefix blocks and signature combinations — the signatures of the Gerente General and Comisario Fiscal changed multiple times across the 1940s.