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1 Sol
| Issuer | Banco La Providencia |
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| Year | 1867-1872 |
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| Value | 1 Sol |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper with intricate guilloche borders at left and right, each containing a numeral '1' medallion. A female allegorical vignette occupies the lower left, while a caduceus-flanked vignette appears at lower right. The large underprint letters 'UNO' dominate the centre of the note, with the bank title 'EL BANCO LA PROVIDENCIA' and country name 'PERU' inscribed above in bold letterpress. The denomination 'UN SOL' is printed across the centre, with manuscript date and signature lines below, and the printer's imprint of the American Bank Note Company along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate guilloche framework with large numeral '1' cartouches at left and right, and the bank name 'LA PROVIDENCIA' inscribed vertically within the side borders. A central landscape vignette rendered in fine intaglio engraving shows an Andean herder with a group of llamas and alpacas in a highland setting. The word 'UNO' appears in guilloche panels both above and below the central vignette. |
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Banco La Providencia was one of several private commercial banks chartered in Peru during the brief liberal banking experiment of the late 1860s, before the state moved to consolidate and ultimately nationalize monetary functions following the fiscal catastrophe of the War of the Pacific. The American Bank Note Company produced this series in New York — a standard arrangement for Peruvian private banks of the period, which lacked domestic printing infrastructure capable of the intaglio security work required.
The S227 designation places it firmly in the private issuer category, never part of any government emission. Banco La Providencia itself had a short institutional life, and surviving notes from this series are correspondingly scarce.