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50 Pesos 5 Condores
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1944-1947 |
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| Size | 145 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green on uncoloured paper. An oval intaglio portrait vignette of Aníbal Pinto appears at right centre, with his name inscribed below. The large denomination numeral '50' is printed in bold at left and right margins, with 'CINCUENTA PESOS' in guilloche-bordered panels along the vertical edges. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower centre, identified by title as Presidente and Gerente General, with the issue date below. A large blank oval watermark area occupies the left field. |
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| Obverse lettering | CINCO CONDORES BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE CINCUENTA PESOS CONVERTIBLES EN ORO CONFORME A LA LEY TALLERES DE ESPECIES VALORADAS. SANTIAGO, CHILE (Translation: Five Condores Central Bank of Chile Fifty Pesos Convertible into gold in accordance with the Law) |
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Chile's Talleres de Especies Valoradas — the state security printing works established in the 1920s — handled this series entirely in-house, a deliberate policy of the Banco Central to reduce dependence on foreign printers that had dominated Chilean currency production since the nineteenth century. The dual denomination, expressing face value simultaneously in Pesos and Condores, reflects the transitional monetary arithmetic of the period: the Condor had been introduced in 1925 at a rate of 10 Pesos, and the parallel notation persisted on notes well past any practical necessity.
Pick 104 spans a four-year window that includes Chile's postwar inflation pressures, which would eventually force a full redenomination by the early 1960s.