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| Uitgever | Banco Español de la Isla de Cuba |
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| Jaar | 1897 |
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| Afmetingen | 85 × 42 mm |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | EL BANCO ESPAÑOL DE LA ISLA DE CUBA A LA PRESENTACION PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR DE ESTE BILLETE VEINTE CENTAVOS EN METÁLICO HABANA, 15 DE FEBRERO DE 1897 SÉRIE I EL GOBERNADOR American Bank Note Co. N.Y. 20 VEINTE CENTAVOS 20 |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | EL BANCO ESPAÑOL DE LA ISLA DE CUBA AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY NEW YORK |
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The Banco Español de la Isla de Cuba issued this note in 1897, deep into the Cuban War of Independence and the same year the United States was moving toward direct intervention. Spain's colonial banking apparatus was under severe strain — the war had disrupted the sugar economy, Spanish treasury transfers were erratic, and confidence in paper fractional currency had collapsed in many provinces. Small-denomination notes like this one were a practical stopgap against coin hoarding and scarcity.
ABNC's New York shop printed the series while Cuba was actively at war with its issuer's government — an unremarkable commercial arrangement at the time, but a pointed irony given what followed in 1898.