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| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1942-1943 |
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| Currency | Old peso (1835-1959) |
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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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| 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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| Protection type | Watermark |
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