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!

100 Sucres

Issuer Banco Central del Ecuador
Year 1928-1936
Type Log in to see details
Value Log in to see details
Currency Log in to see details
Composition Cotton paper
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 Log in to see details
Obverse lettering EL BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR
SOCIEDAD ANONIMA
CAPITAL AUTORIZADO 10,000,000 Sucres
Quito
CIEN SUCRES
Serie EF
Reverse description Log in to see details
Reverse lettering Log in to see details
Signature(s) Log in to see details
Protection type Log in to see details
Protection description Watermark incorporated into the cotton paper substrate.
Variants Log in to see details
Comments

Ecuador's central bank was itself barely established when this note entered circulation — the Banco Central del Ecuador was founded in 1927 as part of the Kemmerer Mission reforms, a U.S.-led financial reorganization that swept through several South American countries in the late 1920s attempting to impose gold-standard discipline and institutional banking structure. The 100 Sucres was a significant denomination for the period, far beyond everyday transaction use.

ABNC's contract for this series was part of a broader regional relationship the New York firm maintained with newly reorganized Latin American central banks. The plate work is characteristic of their interwar production quality, though the economic chaos of the early 1930s — Ecuador suspended gold convertibility in 1932 — likely affected how long these circulated before redemption pressure mounted.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE