Catalog
50 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1975-1981 |
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| Size | 145 x 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue and aqua intaglio printing over a green and light blue underprint with fine guilloche work. At right, an engraved portrait vignette of Arturo Prat; a star and anchor device appears at center. Issuing bank title, denomination, date, and printer imprint are rendered in intaglio lettering. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE CINCUENTA PESOS ESQUADRA LIBERTADORA (Translation: Central Bank of Chile Fifty Pesos Liberating Squadron) |
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Chile's 50 Peso note of this series was printed domestically by the Casa de Moneda de Chile at a time when the country was deep into the economic restructuring imposed by the Pinochet junta following the 1973 coup. The peso itself had been redenominated in 1975 — one new peso equaling 1,000 old escudos — making this note part of the very first peso series after that conversion.
Domestic printing was a deliberate policy shift; earlier Chilean issues had frequently relied on foreign printers. The watermark security on this series is modest by international standards of the period, reflecting the constraints of the in-house facility rather than any particular design choice.