Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
|---|---|
| Year | 1939-1949 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 10 Sucres (10 ECS) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Central vignette shows an allegorical female figure sowing seeds, set against a rural and industrial landscape including a steam-powered locomotive, an ox-drawn cart, palm trees, a building, and utility lines. The issuer name arcs across the top, with the denomination in numerals at all four corners and along both side panels, and in letters below the central vignette. Series letters appear in black at the lower left and right, serial numbers in black at the upper left and right, with place of issue and date toward the lower portion. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The national Arms of Ecuador occupy the central vignette, rendered in detailed intaglio. The issuer name curves as a legend above the arms, the denomination appears in numerals at all four corners and along both side panels, and in letters below the central device. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Banco Central del Ecuador began issuing its own notes only in 1927, after the bank's creation as part of the Kemmerer Mission reforms — a US-led monetary stabilization program that swept through several South American countries in the 1920s. Before that, private commercial banks had issued Ecuador's circulating paper. The ABNC relationship that produced this series was a direct consequence of that American-led restructuring.
The sucre held reasonable stability through most of this note's issue window, though wartime import restrictions and postwar inflation steadily eroded purchasing power by the late 1940s. Notes from this series often show heavy circulation wear, consistent with a denomination that saw genuine everyday use.