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50 Pesos 5 Condores
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1947-1958 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Green and orange-brown bicolour design rendered in a combination of intaglio and letterpress. The large numeral "50" dominates the left-centre field against a fine geometric guilloche background with a central starburst motif. A circular bank seal is positioned at right, and ornate rosette devices fill the corners. The bank title and denomination are set in a blackletter (German-style) typeface along the top and bottom margins respectively. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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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.