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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco Anglo-Peruano |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Dark intaglio-printed note with ornate cross-shaped guilloche vignettes at left and right, each enclosing the numeral "50" in bold relief. The centre carries the bank title "el Banco Anglo-Peruano" in large script lettering, beneath which the text "Pagará á la vista y al portador" and the denomination inscription "CINCUENTA CENTAVOS en moneda corriente" are set in letterpress. The place and date line reads "Lima é Iquique, Julio 1° de 1875", followed by the word "DIRECTORES" and two manuscript facsimile signatures. A fine lathe-work border with repeated "50" and "BANCO ANGLO PERUANO" counters frames the entire note. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO ANGLO-PERUANO CINCUENTA CENTAVOS 50 National Bank Note Company, New York |
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The Banco Anglo-Peruano was a British-backed commercial bank operating in Lima during the brief window of Peruvian financial expansion before the War of the Pacific (1879–1884) collapsed the country's economy. Notes of this series were rendered effectively worthless by the war and the currency chaos that followed, making survival in any condition genuinely uncommon.
The National Bank Note Company printed this in New York — the same firm responsible for early U.S. federal issues before the Bureau of Engraving and Printing consolidated government work. Their South American commercial contracts in this period were substantial.