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50 Pesetas
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 1907 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 EL BANCO DE ESPAÑA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR CINCUENTA PESETAS. MADRID, 15 de Julio de 1907. EL GOBERNADOR. EL INTERVENTOR. EL CAJERO Bradbury Wilkinson & Company Ltd. Londres (Translation: The Bank of Spain Will pay the bearer Fifty Pesetas Madrid, July 15, 1907 The Governor. The Comptroller. The Cashier) |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 BANCO DE ESPAÑA CINCUENTA PESETAS Bradbury Wilkinson & Company Ltd. Londres (Translation: Bank of Spain Fifty Pesetas) |
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Bradbury Wilkinson produced this note at a moment when the Banco de España was systematically outsourcing its printing to British firms — a deliberate policy rooted in distrust of domestic production capacity following the currency scandals of the late nineteenth century. The arrangement with Bradbury Wilkinson ran alongside concurrent contracts with other London houses, meaning Spanish notes of this period were effectively manufactured abroad and shipped to Madrid for issue.
P#63 is among the scarcer Bradbury Wilkinson issues for Spain; surviving examples in any usable condition are genuinely uncommon, partly because the 50 pesetas denomination saw heavy transactional use in commercial settlements.