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50 Pesetas
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Engraver(s) | Enrique Vaquer Atienza |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper with red serial number. To the left, a front-facing bust vignette of Spanish Golden Age writer Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas; to the right, an allegorical figure of Mercury wearing a winged hat and holding a caduceus. Geometric and floral guilloche borders frame the composition. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 BANCO DE ESPAÑA 50 PESETAS (Translation: Bank of Spain 50 Pesetas) |
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The 1899 series was produced during a period of acute fiscal pressure on the Spanish treasury, following the catastrophic loss of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines in 1898. The war had drained reserves and undermined confidence in Spanish paper, and this issue entered circulation into an economy still absorbing that shock.
Enrique Vaquer Atienza was among the most accomplished Spanish engravers of his generation, responsible for a number of postage stamp and banknote plates during the Restoration period. His work on this series is notably fine for domestic production of the era.