An Impossible Set
Uruguay: Banco Italiano de Uruguay

Slot Comment:

A number of banks demonstrate the importance of the European influence in the region with Italian investment and business playing a role through Banco Italiano (1867), Banco Italiano de Uruguay (1887) and Banco Italo Oriental (1889). The notes from the Banco Italiano de Uruguay are the most common a...
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Set Details
Note Description: Uruguay, Banco Italiano
100 Pesos - Montevideo
Grade: 64
Country: Uruguay
Note Number: URGS215r
Signatures/
Vignettes: 		- Printer: ABNC
- Remainder
Comment: Pinhole
Certification #: 2085122-002
Owner: ColonialCoinsUK
Set Category: World
Set Name: An Impossible Set
Slot Name: Uruguay: Banco Italiano de Uruguay
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

The representative note is a remainder 100 pesos note for which two Series, A and B, were printed and these can often be found as an uncut sheet of two notes (S215). It is interesting that this note is almost at the end of the production run from May 1888 (Series A, S/N 9983 of 10000) as the back is yellow rather than orange which indicates the earlier 1887 printing even though all issues bear the date of 20 September 1887. On the left is a portrait of the Vittorio Emmanuele II, the first King of a united Italy even though he died in 1878 and Umberto I was on the throne, a common ABNC portrait of Christopher Columbus is on the right. The back depicts the importance of the cattle to the economy of the region with the head of a steer on the left and gauchos herding cattle on the left.

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