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50 Centimes Banque André Krajewski
| Issuer | Banque André Krajewski |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green note printed by letterpress. A seated allegorical female figure holds a branch at center, with a framed denomination panel at lower left. The design carries the issuer's name and place of issue inscribed across the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | cts 50 |
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André Krajewski operated a private commercial bank in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and this 50 centimes note is an outlier in every respect — a French-denomination fractional issued by a private foreign-named institution in Ecuador, printed in San Francisco. The Carlisle imprint is the key detail: A. Carlisle & Co. was a San Francisco printing firm that supplied a surprisingly wide range of Latin American commercial and emergency paper in the early twentieth century, particularly during the fractional currency shortages that plagued the region after the First World War disrupted coin supplies.
P#8 places this near the top of a small series, suggesting Krajewski's bank issued multiple denominations to cover everyday transactions the Ecuadorian monetary system could not reliably supply in coin at the time.