1 Sol Banco Anglo-Peruano

Banco Anglo-Peruano was one of several foreign-backed commercial banks that emerged in Lima during Peru's guano boom, when government credit was flush and private banking expanded rapidly. The bank failed in the crash that followed the War of the Pacific, making notes from the early 1870s survivors of an institution that did not outlast the decade.

Dondorf & Naumann were primarily known for their playing cards and luxury printing — their banknote work was a secondary business, which partly explains why Peruvian provincial collectors occasionally encounter this series with ink adhesion inconsistencies along the face plate margins.