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500 Pesos 50 Condores
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1942-1943 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red-brown intaglio print on a fine guilloche underprint. An engraved portrait vignette of Admiral Jorge Montt Álvarez is centered within an oval frame, flanked by an oval watermark space to the left. The denomination "QUINIENTOS PESOS" and "CINCUENTA CONDORES" appear to the right of the portrait, with two manuscript signatures below — those of the Presidente and Gerente General — alongside the date 18-VIII-1943. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONVERTIBLES EN ORO CONFORME A LA LEY BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE QUINIENTOS PESOS CINCUENTA CONDORES 18 - VIII - 1943. TALLERES DE ESPECIES VALORADAS. SANTIAGO, CHILE. (Translation: Convertible into Gold in Conformity with the Law Central Bank of Chile Five Hundred Pesos Fifty Condores August 18, 1943.) |
| Reverse description | Brown and olive. A historicist vignette at center-left portrays the arrival of Diego de Almagro in Chile, rendered in a detailed engraved tableau with figures and landscape elements. The bank seal appears at left, set against a guilloche-patterned ground, with the denomination repeated in the border panels. |
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