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1 Sucre
| Issuer | Banco del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1887-1901 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DEL ECUADOR COMPAÑIA ANONIMA CAPITAL $1.200,000 UNO VALE UN SUCRE EN MONEDA CORRIENTE Guayaquil GERENTES AMERICAN BANK NOTE CO. NEW YORK |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green, with an elaborate lathe-work guilloche design covering the entire surface and geometric cross-shaped panel at centre. The central panel contains the inscription BANCO DEL ECUADOR within an ornate cartouche, flanked on each side by circular medallions enclosing the numeral 1 in fine engine-turned underprint. A circular handstamp appears at the right side. |
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The Banco del Ecuador was one of several competing private banks authorized to issue currency in Ecuador during the late nineteenth century — a period when no single national bank held a monopoly on note issuance. This note predates the monetary unification efforts that would eventually concentrate that authority, and the Banco del Ecuador itself ceased independent operation after the 1899 banking reform legislation began reshaping the sector.
ABNC produced the plates in New York, as was routine for South American private bank issues of this period. The long date range — fourteen years — suggests multiple print runs from the same basic plate, with issue dates added by hand or typeset locally at the time of signing.