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500 Pesetas
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Value | 500 Pesetas (500 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | At left, a portrait vignette of the playwright and poet Lope de Vega; at centre, an allegorical group composed of a woman holding a shield and globe, attended by three children; at right, a seated female allegory with a wheel. The composition is executed in fine intaglio engraving in the American Bank Note Company style, with elaborate guilloche borders framing the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 / QUINIENTAS EL BANCO DE ESPAÑA pagará al portador Quinientas Pesetas Madrid, 1º de Julio de 1876 EL GOBERNADOR / EL INTERVENTOR / EL CAJERO (Signatures of Manuel Cantero San Vicente, Teodoro Rubio Castellanos and Manuel Díaz Moreno de Vivar) (Translation: 500 / Five Hundred The Bank of Spain will pay the carrier Five Hundred Pesetas Madrid, 1st of July 1876 The Governor / The Auditor / The Cashier (Signatures of Manuel Cantero San Vicente, Teodoro Rubio Castellanos and Manuel Díaz Moreno de Vivar)) |
| Reverse description | A central circular vignette in intaglio engraving presents a steam locomotive at a busy railway yard, with workers and figures in the foreground, rendered in rich ochre-brown tones characteristic of American Bank Note Company production. Denomination numerals "500" appear in large counters at left and right, enclosed within ornate guilloche rosettes and geometric lathe-work borders that fill all four corners. The printer's imprint "American Bank Note Company, New York" appears at the foot of the note. |
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