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500 Sucres
| Issuer | Banco Central del Ecuador |
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| Year | 1944-1966 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in uniform burnt-orange on cream-toned paper, the reverse is dominated by a large circular vignette of the Ecuadorian national coat of arms engraved in fine detail, with the Andean condor surmounting the shield, the whole set within an intricate guilloche medallion. The numeral 500 occupies each of the four corners against a background of tightly interlaced lathe-work, with BANCO CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR in a panel across the top and QUINIENTOS SUCRES repeated at the foot. The printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY appears in small letters along the lower margin. |
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| Protection description | Wavy-line or portrait watermark visible when the note is held to light, embedded in the cotton paper. |
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| Comments |
The Banco Central del Ecuador's 500 Sucres series spans an unusually long print run — over two decades with the same basic plate design from ABNC, a firm whose relationship with Ecuadorian issuers stretched back to the 1920s. During this period Ecuador pegged the sucre to the US dollar under the 1944 monetary reform framework, which partly explains why a high-denomination note could remain in continuous issue without redesign: the monetary environment was comparatively stable by regional standards.
Known date varieties within this series attract more collector attention than the base type itself. Signature combinations changed multiple times across the run, and early 1940s examples differ meaningfully from issues of the early 1960s despite sharing the same ABNC plate origin.