400 Escudos
Features
| Issuer |
Spain
 |
|---|---|
| Issuing entity | Bank of Spain (Banco de España) |
| Period |
Provisional Government (1868-1871)
|
| Type | Standard circulation banknotes |
| Year | 1868 |
| Value | 400 Escudos |
| Currency | Escudo (1864-1873) |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | 221 × 190 mm |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Issued | 29 June 1869 |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 514358 |
Series: "Banco de España" Provincial Branch Issues
Obverse
Black, violet and grey print; black serial number.
Male allegory with winged helmet, caduceus, cape on barrel and boxes. Qurubin on top in nature landscape. Standing girl with tunic in oval medallion on the right.
Scripts: Latin, Latin (cursive)
Lettering:
400 CUATROCIENTOS ESCUDOS
EL BANCO DE ESPAÑA
pagará al portador CUATROCIENTOS escudos en efectivo
MADRID, 31 de Octubre de 1868.
EL GOBERNADOR POR LA INTERVENCIÓN POR LA CAJA
Translation:
Four Hundred Escudos
The Bank of Spain
will pay the bearer Four Hundred Escudos in cash
Madrid, October 31, 1868.
The Governor For the Intervention For the Cash
Reverse
Violet print.
Face value and geometric designs.
Script: Latin
Lettering: 400 ESCUDOS
Printer
Bank of Spain Workshop, Madrid, SpainComments
NOTE: The banknote shown in the pictures is FALSE from the time.
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 | |||||||||||||||
| 1868-Oct-31 | 50 000 | ||||||||||||||
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