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2 Soles
| Issuer | Banco La Providencia |
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| Year | 1867-1875 |
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| Currency | Sol (1863-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Black on white cotton paper. The centre carries the bank title 'EL BANCO LA PROVIDENCIA' in bold letterpress above the denomination 'DOS SOLES' and the place of issue 'LIMA', with a serial number and letter prefix at upper centre. To the left, a standing allegorical female figure with agricultural implements forms the principal vignette, while to the right a caduceus and stork vignette appears; large numeral '2' counters occupy both lateral margins. The lower border carries the printer's imprint of the Compañía Americana de Billetes de Banco, New York, and two manuscript signatures of the Gerentes appear below the text 'DOS GERENTES'. |
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| Obverse lettering | PERU EL BANCO LA PROVIDENCIA Pagará a la vista DOS SOLES LIMA DOS GERENTES Compañía Americana de Billetes de Banco Nueva York |
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Banco La Providencia was one of several private Peruvian banks that emerged under the 1862 banking legislation permitting commercial note issue — a brief liberalization that ended when the state moved to consolidate currency control in the late 1870s. The American Bank Note Company contract was typical for South American private banks of this period seeking engraved plates that projected credibility to a note-skeptical public.
The S228 designation places it in the Peruvian private bank section, a category where surviving examples are genuinely uncommon. Most Peruvian private bank paper was recalled or simply destroyed as institutions collapsed under the financial strain of the War of the Pacific.