50 Centavos

The Banco Anglo-Peruano was a British-backed commercial bank operating in Lima during the brief window of Peruvian financial expansion before the War of the Pacific (1879–1884) collapsed the country's economy. Notes of this series were rendered effectively worthless by the war and the currency chaos that followed, making survival in any condition genuinely uncommon.

The National Bank Note Company printed this in New York — the same firm responsible for early U.S. federal issues before the Bureau of Engraving and Printing consolidated government work. Their South American commercial contracts in this period were substantial.