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5 Pesos 1/2 Condor
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1927-1930 |
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| Size | 140 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio typography on green guilloche underprint, with the issuer's title in ornate Gothic script across the upper portion of the note. Large numeral '5' vignettes set within lathe-work ovals anchor the left and right margins, while a central banner carries the denomination and gold convertibility clause. Two manuscript signatures appear below, attributed to the Presidente and Gerente General respectively, flanking a large green overprint of the word 'CINCO'; the printer's imprint runs along the lower border. |
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| Signature(s) | Ismael Tocornal Tocornal & Aurelio Burr Sanchez Emiliano Figueroa Larraín & Aurelio Burr Sanchez |
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The Banco Central de Chile was established by law in August 1925, largely at the instigation of the Kemmerer Mission — the American financial advisory team led by Edwin Kemmerer that swept through several South American republics in the 1920s restructuring their central banking systems. This note belongs to the bank's first circulating series, issued almost immediately after the institution opened for business, replacing the fragmented note-issuing landscape of the private banks it superseded.
Printed domestically by the Talleres de Especies Valoradas rather than contracted abroad — unusual for a newly established central bank of that period, which typically relied on European or North American security printers for prestige and technical capacity.