Municipalidad De Guayaquil - 1900's dated 1,000 Sucres Brown Specimen Ecuador Bond
Inv# SE3585 Specimen Bond
1,000 Sucres Brown Specimen Bond printed by Hamilton Bank Note Company. Full page of coupons to right of the bond.
The Sucre, Ecuador’s currency from 1884 to 2000, had an ISO code of ECS. It was subdivided into 10 decimos and 100 centavos. Named after Latin American political leader Antonio José de Sucre, the Sucre was replaced by the US dollar due to the 1998-99 financial crisis. On March 22, 1884, the Ecuadorian peso was renamed Sucre and linked to the silver standard. Initially, the Sucre was tied to 22.5 grams of fine silver (equivalent to 5 LMU francs). Outdated coins were phased out between 1887 and 1892, leaving only the silver-backed coins in circulation.
Stock and Bond Specimens are made and usually retained by a printer as a record of the contract with a client, generally with manuscript contract notes such as the quantity printed. Specimens are sometimes produced for use by the printing company's sales team as examples of the firm’s products. These are usually marked "Specimen" and have no serial numbers.
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