500 Soles

Banco La Providencia was a private Peruvian commercial bank operating under the financial liberalization policies of the mid-to-late nineteenth century, when Lima's banking sector briefly flourished before the catastrophic credit collapse triggered by the War of the Pacific. Notes from this institution are genuinely uncommon — the bank did not survive the economic destruction of that conflict, and its paper circulated in a window too narrow to produce large surviving populations.

The American Bank Note Company printing places this squarely within the period when virtually every serious South American issuer went to New York for prestige and security printing. ABNC's contract work for Peruvian private banks of this era is well documented, though individual issue quantities for Providencia specifically are not recorded in the surviving literature.