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1000 Pesos 100 Condores
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1929 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue and purple intaglio on pink underprint. A condor vignette occupies the left portion of the note, rendered in fine engraved detail. To the right, a large ornate guilloche medallion in pink and purple carries the numeral 1000 with the inscription CIEN CONDORES beneath, accompanied by the legend BILLETE PROVISIONAL; two handwritten signatures appear at the lower centre and right, above the titles Presidente and Gerente General respectively. |
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| Reverse description | Violet on pink underprint, with a bold central vignette consisting of an ornate horizontal panel bearing the numeral 1000 in large relief on both flanking sections and the legend MIL PESOS centred within a decorated cartouche. The inscription CIEN CONDORES and the bank name appear below the panel in capital letters. A circular bank seal incorporating a condor and the legends BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE and SANTIAGO is struck in violet at the lower left. |
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Chile's 1929 monetary reform replaced the Peso with the Cóndor at a rate of 10 Pesos to 1 Cóndor, which is why high-denomination notes of this transitional period carry dual face values — 1000 Pesos and 100 Cóndores are identical sums, not two separate figures. The reform was driven largely by Edwin Kemmerer, the American monetary economist whose advisory missions reshaped central banking across Latin America in the 1920s. Chile's Banco Central itself had only been established in 1925 on Kemmerer's direct recommendation.
Printed domestically by the Talleres de Especies Valoradas in Santiago, this note is among the earlier productions of that state printing works. The Cóndor as a monetary unit proved short-lived — it was effectively abandoned as Chile entered the severe economic contraction of the early 1930s.