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5000 Escudos
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 1974-1975 |
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| Value | 5000 Escudos |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE CINCO MIL ESCUDOS `DIJISTE LIBERTAD ANTES QUE NADIE, CUANDO EL SUSURRO IBA DE PIEDRA EN PIEDRA, ESCONDIDO EN LOS PATIOS, HUMILLADO` CANTO GENERAL CASA DE LOS CARRERA (Translation: Central Bank of Chile Five Thousand Escudos `You said freedom before anyone else when the whisper went from stone to stone, hidden in the courtyards, humiliated` Canto General Carrera's House) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Chile's escudo was already in freefall by the time this note entered circulation — inflation had run at over 600% annually in 1973, and the military junta that deposed Allende in September of that year inherited a currency effectively in collapse. The 5000 escudo denomination, unthinkable just years earlier, was a direct consequence of that spiral.
The series ran only until 1975, when Chile replaced the escudo entirely with the peso at a rate of 1000 escudos to 1 peso, rendering every note in this series obsolete within months. Three signature combinations are documented across series A and B, reflecting the rapid turnover in economic leadership during the junta's early restructuring — Pablo Baraona Urzúa, who appears on the later series B pairings, went on to serve as Minister of Economy under Pinochet.