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10 Soles
| Issuer | Banco del Perú |
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| Year | 1874 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out horizontally with a large ornate guilloche monogram 'BP' in gold-orange at the left, flanked by a decorative border of repeated '10' numerals along all edges. The central text panel bears the issuer's name 'BANCO DEL PERÚ' in bold letterpress, followed by the promise to pay 'DIEZ SOLES en moneda corriente,' with the date 'Lima 1° de Enero de 1874' inscribed below. To the right, a dark medallion vignette encloses the numeral '10,' with the word 'DIEZ' repeated in the lower corners, and two manuscript signatures appear at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DEL PERÚ pagará a la vista y al portador DIEZ SOLES en moneda corriente Lima 1° de Enero de 1874 DIEZ 10 |
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Banco del Perú was one of several private commercial banks chartered in Lima during the early 1870s credit boom, a period of guano-revenue optimism that ended badly. By 1877 the bank was in serious difficulty, and the broader collapse of Peru's private banking sector — accelerated by the War of the Pacific beginning in 1879 — rendered most of these notes worthless within a decade of issue.
César Canevaro came from one of the most prominent Italian-Peruvian merchant families in Lima, deeply involved in both finance and guano trading. His signature here is not ceremonial.