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50 Centavos Iquitos Revolutionary Government
| Issuer | Loreto, Federal State of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | E. T. El Oriente |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in black letterpress and consists of text-only layout with ornamental typographic designs. The face value is stated three times in two forms across three lines — the central line using the abbreviated form — without any pictorial vignette or guilloche underprint. |
| Reverse lettering | VALE 50 CENTAVOS VALE 50 CTVS. VALE 50 CENTAVOS (Translation: Valid for 50 cents.) |
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Loreto's declaration as an independent federal state in 1921 was a direct challenge to Lima's centralized authority, and these notes were part of that political assertion — local scrip issued under a revolutionary government that controlled Amazonian Peru for a matter of weeks before being suppressed. The printer, El Oriente, was the regional newspaper of Iquitos; using a press house rather than a security printer reflects exactly how improvised the whole episode was.
Survival rate is low, less from circulation wear than from the note's fundamental illegitimacy once federal ambitions collapsed.