Catalog
8 Reales
| Issuer | Tesoreria y Aduana Unidas de Valdivia |
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| Year | 1840-1844 |
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| Value | 8 Reales |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper field with two official stamps applied at upper centre and lower left: the circular seal of the Tesoreria y Aduana Unidas de Valdivia bearing the Chilean national coat of arms, and the stamp of the Intendencia de Valdivia. An additional 'MM' control stamp appears alongside manuscript signatures authorising the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1840 Vale Ocho Reales Ocho Reales (Translation: 1840 Worth Eight Reales Eight Reales) |
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The Tesorería y Aduana Unidas de Valdivia was one of several provincial Chilean fiscal offices empowered to issue emergency currency during the chronic coin shortage of the 1830s and 1840s. These notes were not the product of a central banking authority — Chile had none at the time — but rather locally administered scrip backed by customs and treasury receipts. Valdivia, isolated in the south and still rebuilding decades after the wars of independence, had particular difficulty maintaining metallic circulation.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference signals a specialty listing — this is regional, not nationally issued paper, and survivor numbers are correspondingly low.