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1 Sucre
| Issuer | Banco Internacional |
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| Year | 1892 |
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| Currency | Sucre (1884-2000) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in brown-red ink, with a dense, all-over geometric lathe-work pattern forming the background. A large central medallion of intricate guilloche rosette work bears the bank name and denomination in two lines within an ornate frame. Three oval panels with fine engine-turned line engraving are arranged across the note, flanked by repeated corner cartouches with the denomination. The design is characteristic of late 19th-century security printing by Waterlow & Sons. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO INTERNACIONAL UN SUCRE UN SUCRE |
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Banco Internacional was one of several private Ecuadorian banks granted note-issuing privileges under the 1871 banking law — a system that persisted until the Banco Central del Ecuador was established in 1927 and consolidated the currency. Waterlow & Sons produced the plates, as they did for a substantial portion of Latin American private bank issues during this period, and the guilloche underprint work here is theirs rather than anything specific to the issuing institution.
The 1892 date places this squarely in the decade when Ecuador's sucre-denominated notes were still competing with silver coin for everyday transaction use — public confidence in paper remained shaky throughout the coastal commercial regions that these notes were meant to serve.