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| 表面の説明 | Printed in black and brown, the obverse carries a central vignette of a sailing vessel entering Havana harbor with the Morro Castle in the background, flanked by two seated allegorical female figures, one holding a cornucopia and the other a staff. Subsidiary vignettes include a tobacco plant, palm trees, a sugar mill with smokestacks, and cattle hauling a cart laden with sugar cane. Denomination panels and the issuing bank's title appear in letterpress within an ornate typographic border. |
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| 裏面の説明 | The reverse is unprinted plain paper, bearing only contemporary manuscript annotations and a circular blue ink cancellation stamp reading "ISAAC RODRIGUEZ Y CA, PTO PRINCIPE" dated 27 ENE 1888, applied during circulation. |
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| 偽造防止技術 | ログイン して詳細を見る |
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The Banco Español de la Habana occupied an unusual position: nominally a private institution, it functioned as the colonial government's fiscal agent in Cuba, and the high-denomination notes it issued in this period were tools of commercial credit rather than everyday exchange. Five hundred pesos circulated almost exclusively among merchants, sugar planters, and government contractors — ordinary Cubans rarely handled them.
The timing matters. These notes were produced across the opening years of the Ten Years' War, Cuba's first major independence uprising, when confidence in colonial financial institutions was under genuine strain. ABNC's engraved plates gave the series a solidity of appearance the political situation hardly warranted.