Catalog
50 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco de Trujillo |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Currency | Sol (1863-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Pink and black note with the bank title EL BANCO DE TRUJILLO across the upper portion in large letters, flanked by the denomination numeral 50 in each upper corner. A central oval vignette presents a dog standing beside a safe or strongbox, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The lower portion carries handwritten text including the date, serial number, and two manuscript signatures of bank officials. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE TRUJILLO TRUJILLO Pagará á la vista al portador CINCUENTA CENTAVOS en moneda corriente Gerente 50 CENT |
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The Banco de Trujillo was one of several regional private banks chartered under Peru's 1873 banking law, which allowed provincial institutions to issue their own currency. Trujillo, on the northern coast, was far enough from Lima that local notes filled a genuine commercial gap — the national coinage supply was chronically inadequate in the provinces throughout the 1870s.
ABNC produced the plates in New York, as they did for most Peruvian private bank issues of this period. The bank did not survive the War of the Pacific; by 1881, Chilean occupation and the collapse of Peruvian credit had effectively ended all private note-issuing activity in the country. Survivors of this series are scarce precisely because the issuing institution ceased operations so abruptly.