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500 Pesetas replica
| Issuer | Banco de España |
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| Year | 1940 |
| Type | Replica banknote |
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| Reverse description | Left portion carries a panoramic intaglio vignette of the city of Toledo with the cathedral visible in the skyline; the coat of arms of Spain is positioned to the right, framed within guilloche borders and surrounded by fine engraved ornamental work. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE ESPAÑA QUINIENTAS PESETAS REPRODUCCIÓN AUTORIZADA (Translation: BANK OF SPAIN FIVE HUNDRED PESETAS AUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION) |
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The Banco de España 500 Pesetas of 1940 belongs to one of the most politically charged series in Spanish monetary history, issued in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War under the Franco regime's newly consolidated financial authority. The FNMT had resumed full production in Madrid after years of disrupted wartime printing, and the 1940 series was among its first large-denomination outputs under the new order.
This is a replica, not a circulated or uncirculated original — worth stating plainly, since period reproductions and modern facsimiles of this series circulate in the collector market with inconsistent labeling.