500 Pesetas

Features

Issuer Spain
Issuing entity Bank of Spain (Banco de España)
Period Second Republic (1931-1939)
Type Standard banknote
Year 1935
Value 500 Pesetas (500 ESP)
Currency Peseta (1868-2001)
Composition Paper
Size 104 × 101 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized 1 April 1939
Number
N#
208158
References P# 89
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Paper Money. Modern issues 1961-present (25th edition). Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, United States.
And 2 more volumes.

Series: 1935-1936 Issue

Obverse

Portrait of the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés (1504 - 1547) and Hernán Cortés Palace in Cuernavacas (Morelos, Mexico)

Script: Latin

Lettering:
500
EL BANCO DE ESPAÑA
PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR QUINIENTAS PESETAS
MADRID, 7 de Enero de 1935.
EL GOBERNADOR / EL INTERVENTOR / EL CAJERO (Signatures of Alfredo Zavala Lafora, Adolfo Castaño Orejón and Joaquín Serrano Montero)

Translation:
The Bank of Spain
will pay the carrier Five Hundred Pesetas
Madrid January 7, 1935.
The Governor / The Auditor / The Cashier (Signatures of Alfredo Zavala Lafora, Adolfo Castaño Orejón and Joaquín Serrano Montero)

Engraver: Camilo Delhom

Reverse

Francisco Sans Cabot's painting "Hernán Cortés burning their ships" or "The colonization of Mexico". Coat of arms of the second republic upper left corner

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BANCO DE ESPAÑA
500

Translation: Bank of Spain

Engraver: Camilo Delhom

Watermark

Head of Hernán Cortés

Printer

De La Rue (Thomas de la Rue; Thomas De La Rue & Co.; TDLR), London, United Kingdom (1821-date)

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1935-Jan-07 

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