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50 Pesos 5 Condores
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1927-1930 |
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| Value | 50 Pesos = 5 Condores |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Variants | 28.03.1927 14.05.1928 08.10.1928 10.06.1929 02.06.1930 |
| Comments |
Chile's brief experiment with the gold-standard condor unit — introduced under the 1925 monetary reform engineered largely under pressure from the Kemmerer Mission — gave this note its dual denomination. Edwin Kemmerer's team restructured the Chilean currency system so thoroughly that the Central Bank itself was a product of their recommendations, founded in 1925. The 5 Condores equivalence was fixed at 50 Pesos, a ratio that reflected the old peso's devalued state rather than any new economic reality.
The shift in signature presentation between the March 1927 and October 1928 printings — printer's name moving from below to within the frame — is a minor but reliable variety marker for the series.