20 Escudos

Features

Issuer	Spain
Issuing entity	Bank of Spain (Banco de España)
Queen	Isabella II (1833-1868)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Year	1866
Value	20 Escudos
Currency	Escudo (1864-1873)
Composition	Paper
Size	203 × 121 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Technique	Letterpress, Lithography
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 327233

Series: "Banco de España" Provincial Branch Issues

Obverse

Black, green and grey print; pink-ocher underprint.
Allegorical woman with spear in hand and holding crowned Coat of Arms, lion lying at her feet. Boy with sickle harvesting wheat. Helmeted heads flank issuing entity.

Scripts: Latin, Latin (cursive)

Lettering:
20 VEINTE
EL BANCO DE ESPAÑA
pagará al portador VEINTE escudos en efectivo
MADRID, 1º de Enero de 1866
EL GOBERNADOR POR LA INTERVENCIÓN POR LA CAJA

Translation:
Twenty
The Bank of Spain
will pay the bearer Twenty Escudos in cash
Madrid, January 1, 1866
The Governor For the Intervention For the Cash

Reverse

Blank reverse

Printer

MacLure, MacDonald & Co. (MacLure, MacDonald & MacGregor), United Kingdom (1835-1992)

Comments

The Bank of Spain, through its Provincial Branches, issued banknotes from 1856 to 1868, with the following issues:

1. Real Vellon system:

Issue of May 1, 1856; Issue of May 1, 1862

2. Escudo system:

Issue of January 1, 1866; Issue of March 16, 1868; Issue of October 31, 1868

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Date			No. printed		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1866-Jan-01			250 000

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