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1 Sol
| Issuer | Banco Nacional del Perú, Tacna |
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| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by an elaborate guilloche border with repeated UNO numerals along the upper and lower margins, and the text LA SUCURSAL EN TACNA DE along the top edge. The central vignette presents a figure of a Peruvian woman in traditional dress with a child, rendered in fine intaglio engraving, flanked by large ornamental numeral 1 counters on either side. The issuing bank name BANCO NACIONAL DEL PERU arches across the upper central panel, with the promise text and denomination UN SOL inscribed in script, and the branch designation TACNA printed beneath the central vignette; two MUESTRA (Specimen) overprints appear at the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DEL PERU LA SUCURSAL EN TACNA DE UN SOL UNO TACNA Muestra |
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Banco Nacional del Perú was established in 1873 and collapsed in 1877, a casualty of overextension and the financial turbulence preceding the War of the Pacific. Notes issued under the Tacna branch are among the rarest in the series — Tacna was a provincial outpost, not a major commercial hub, and branch issue volumes were correspondingly small.
The War of the Pacific (1879–1884) effectively ended circulation of these notes in the region. Chile occupied Tacna in 1880 and held it until 1929, making Peruvian banknotes from that branch something of a historical orphan — issued by a defunct bank, in a city that spent five decades under foreign administration.