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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco de Trujillo |
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| Year | 1882 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE TRUJILLO 50 CENT. TRUJILLO Pagará a la vista al portador CINCUENTA CENTAVOS en moneda corriente |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in red, with an elaborate guilloche framework of interlocking floral rosettes and a Greek key border running along all four edges. The central panel carries the bank name 'EL BANCO DE TRUJILLO' in large bold lettering above the founding inscription 'FUNDADO 1871'. The imprint 'American Bank Note Co. New York' appears in small type at both the top and bottom of the central design. |
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The Banco de Trujillo was one of several regional private banks chartered in Peru during the 1870s and early 1880s under legislation that briefly encouraged note-issuing banks outside Lima. The 1879 outbreak of the War of the Pacific devastated that experiment — Chilean occupation of Peruvian territory and the near-total collapse of government finances brought most provincial banks to ruin within a few years of this note's issue date.
ABNC's involvement was typical for Latin American regional issuers of the period seeking to deter counterfeiting through intaglio work unavailable domestically. Whether significant quantities of this denomination actually reached circulation before the bank failed is unclear from surviving records.