Catalog
5 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1940-1949 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR / SOCIEDAD ANONIMA / CAPITAL AUTORIZADO 20,000,000 SUCRES / QUITO / PAGARA AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA CINCO SUCRES / SERIE FB / VOCAL / DELEGADO SUPERINTENDENCIA DE BANCOS / TESORERO DE RESERVA / AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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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" |
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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.