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20 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1939-1949 |
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| Value | 20 Sucres |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR SOCIEDAD ANONIMA CAPITAL AUTORIZADO 20,000,000 SUCRES PAGARA AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA VEINTE SUCRES QUITO VOCAL DELEGADO: SUPERINTENDENCIA DE BANCOS TESOREO DE RESERVA AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR VEINTE SUCRES AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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The Banco Central del Ecuador began issuing notes through the American Bank Note Company in the 1920s, shortly after the bank's establishment in 1927 — which itself was the direct outcome of a Kemmerer Mission recommendation to consolidate Ecuador's fractured monetary system. This 20 Sucres belongs to a series that spanned a decade of considerable instability, covering World War II and the 1941 conflict with Peru, during which Ecuador lost a substantial portion of its Amazonian territory.
ABNC notes from this period are sometimes found with ink oxidation along the intaglio-printed serial numbers, a known characteristic of certain South American tropical circulation issues from the early 1940s.