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| Uitgever | El Banco Americano |
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| Jaar | 1883 |
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| Referentie(s) | P#S211 |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | EL BANCO AMERICANO CINCUENTA CENTAVOS Pagará al portador CINCUENTA en monedas CENTAVOS corrientes BARRANQUILLA, 1.o de Enero de 1883 EL DIRECTOR No. 50 |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Plain cream-toned paper with no printed design, typical of unfinished specimen reverses of the era. |
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| Opmerkingen |
El Banco Americano was a short-lived Guatemalan private bank operating under the liberal banking legislation of the early 1880s — a period when Guatemala briefly permitted relatively open commercial banking before tighter central controls followed. The S211 designation places this firmly in the speculative regional issues catalogued under Central American private banks, and 50-centavo fractional notes from this issuer are genuinely uncommon survivors.
Waterlow & Sons produced the plates in London. Their work for minor Central American concessionaires in this period was commercially routine on their end, which makes the institutional obscurity of El Banco Americano all the more striking against the quality of the printing.