1 Peso

Chile's 1880s peso notes were issued during a period of sharp monetary instability — the War of the Pacific (1879–1884) had forced the government to suspend convertibility in 1878, and paper currency circulated under a inconvertibility regime that persisted well beyond the war's end. The ABNC contract for this series was part of a broader effort to impose standardized, difficult-to-counterfeit printing on a note-issuing environment that had previously tolerated considerable variation among private banks.

The fifteen-year issue window (1883–1898) is wider than it first appears — individual notes within this Pick type can differ in signature combinations, series letters, and handwritten date completions, making date attribution a more involved exercise than the bracket suggests.