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50 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 1870 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in light brown, the reverse is arranged symmetrically with four large guilloche medallions placed at the corners and center edges, each enclosing the numeral "50" within ornate foliate frames bearing the legend "ESCUDOS". A central rectangular guilloche border frames the composition, with the denomination numeral "50" repeated in bold at top and bottom within decorative cartouches. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 ESCUDOS |
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The Banco de España's 1870 escudo issues occupy an awkward historical moment: Spain had adopted the escudo as its monetary unit in 1864, replacing the real, but by 1869 the peseta system was already being legislated into existence under the new decimal framework. Notes denominated in escudos were effectively obsolete currency almost as soon as they were printed, and the transition left institutions and merchants holding instruments that would require conversion within a few years.
The 1870 date places this note in the brief window between the Glorious Revolution of 1868 and the formal peseta adoption in 1874. Few escudo-denominated notes survived that transition in any quantity.