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50 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1939-1949 |
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| Size | 175 x 85 mm |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Watermarked cotton paper with a repeating pattern visible when held to light. |
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| Comments |
Ecuador's central bank was only established in 1927, created largely under pressure from the Kemmerer Mission — the U.S. economic advisory team that restructured monetary systems across South America throughout that decade. The 50 Sucres denomination was a high-value note for everyday Ecuadorian commerce in this period, and the decade-long date range reflects wartime paper allocation constraints rather than an unusually long print run.
ABNC supplied Ecuador with banknote series across several decades, working from plates that were sometimes revised between printings. Collectors should note that P#94 encompasses signature and date varieties that carry meaningfully different scarcity levels — the earliest dated examples from 1939 are considerably harder to locate than those from the mid-1940s.