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100 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Size | 157 x 67 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR SOCIEDAD ANÓNIMA 100 QUITO GERETE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTE CIEN SUCRES AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
| Reverse description | The reverse, rendered entirely in purple, presents the Ecuadorian national coat of arms as the central vignette, an elaborate engraved composition with a condor surmounting the shield, framed by laurel and palm branches. The bank title BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR arches across the top in bold letterpress, while large guilloche rosettes bearing the numeral 100 fill the left and right panels. The denomination legend CIEN SUCRES appears in a solid panel along the lower border, with the American Bank Note Company imprint at the foot. |
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The Banco Central del Ecuador had been issuing sucre-denominated notes through ABNC for decades by the time this series appeared, a relationship that stretched back to the 1940s. By 1980, Ecuador was riding an oil boom that had begun following its entry into OPEC in 1973, and high-denomination notes like this were increasingly common in daily commerce as inflation eroded the currency's purchasing power through the decade.
Pick 112A distinguishes itself from closely related issues by the signature combination — a detail that trips up collectors who treat the 112 series as interchangeable.