1 Sucre

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.