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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco de Trujillo |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Value | 10 Centavos |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio on white paper with red serial numbers and corner numerals. A central oval vignette carries a finely engraved female portrait in three-quarter view, above which the date line TRUJILLO, á 1º de MAYO de 1876 arches in letterpress; the bank title EL BANCO DE TRUJILLO runs across the lower field, with the denomination DIEZ CENTAVOS and the promise-to-pay legend completing the text panel. The imprint of American Bank Note Co., New York appears at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse is structured around a dense guilloche network of lathe-work scrolls, rosettes, and geometric border ornaments. A large central medallion encloses the numeral 10 within concentric guilloche rings, flanked by foliate and floral elements, while BANCO DE TRUJILLO arches across the upper and lower borders of the central design. The curved panel at the top carries the founding inscription FUNDADO EN 1871. |
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The Banco de Trujillo was one of several provincial Peruvian banks chartered under the 1873 banking law, which briefly liberalized note issuance before the War of the Pacific dismantled the entire system. Most of these regional institutions had collapsed or been absorbed by the late 1880s, leaving their small-denomination issues with truncated circulation histories.
At 10 centavos, this is the kind of fractional note that rarely survived in any quantity — low-value pieces circulated hard, and few bothered to preserve them. ABNC's contract work for Peruvian provincial banks in the 1870s is sparsely documented compared to their larger national commissions.