100 Pesetas

Features

Issuer	Spain
Issuing entity	Bank of Spain (Banco de España)
King	Alfonso XII (1874-1885)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Year	1884
Value	100 Pesetas (100 ESP)
Currency	Peseta (1868-2001)
Composition	Paper
Size	133 × 87 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Issued	24 December 1885
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 325957
References	P# 26 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Series: 1884 "Printer ABNC" First Issue

Obverse

Black print; grey and ocher underprint; blue serial number.
Group of cherubs (top and left) and bust of the Spanish economist and politician Juan Álvarez de Mendizábal front-facing (right). Geometric designs.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
100 CIEN
EL BANCO DE ESPAÑA
PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR CIEN PESETAS
MADRID, 1º DE ENERO DE 1884.
EL GOBERNADOR. EL INTERVENTOR. EL CAJERO
American Bank Note Co. New York

Translation:
100 One Hundred
The Bank of Spain
Will pay the bearer One Hundred Pesetas
Madrid, January 1, 1884.
The Governor. The Comptroller. The Cashier

Reverse

Reddish orange print.
Geometric designs.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BANCO DE ESPAÑA
100
American Bank Note Co. New York

Translation: Bank of Spain

Signatures

Juan Francisco Camacho de Alcorta (JFCA)	Governor
Benito Fariña Cisneros (BFC)	Comptroller
Fernando Pérez Casariego (FPC)	Cashier

Printer

American Banknote Corporation (American Bank Note Company), United States (1795-date)

Comments

Juan Álvarez Mendizábal (born Juan Álvarez Méndez; 25 February 1790 – 3 November 1853), was a Spanish economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 25 September 1835 to 15 May 1836.

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Date	Signatures		No. printed		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1884-Jan-01	JFCA, BFC, FPC		1 000 000

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