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50 Pesos 5 Condores
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1947-1958 |
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| Value | 50 Pesos = 5 Condores |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio note with a fine guilloche underprint throughout. An oval portrait vignette of President Aníbal Pinto appears at right, with his name inscribed below the portrait. The large numeral "50" is printed in the centre, flanked by ornate scrollwork corner devices, with the bank title "BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE" across the upper field and "CINCUENTA PESOS" below the central numeral. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower centre, those of the Presidente and Gerente General, with the printer's imprint along the bottom margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Manuel Trucco Franzani & Arturo Maschke Tornero Arturo Maschke Tornero & Felipe Herrera Lane |
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Chile's Banco Central ran this denomination under a dual-valuation system that acknowledged both the peso and the condor simultaneously — the condor being fixed at 10 pesos, making "5 Condores" simply an alternative expression of 50 pesos. The parallel labeling was a holdover from an earlier monetary framework and was quietly dropped when Chile redenominated with the escudo in 1960.
Talleres de Especies Valoradas, the state security printing works in Santiago, handled the entire run domestically — unusual for mid-century Latin American issues, where contracting to Bradbury Wilkinson or the American Bank Note Company remained common practice well into the 1950s.