500 Pesos, Banco Central de Chile, 1992

This copy

Accession

OM-00170

Serial

AA 1635161

Series year

1992

Actually issued

1992

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

F (IBNS)

Folds, moderate wear. Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.

Estimated value

$2 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-07.

Dimensions

143.6 × 69.2 mm (±0.5, from the scan)

Themes

ModernSouth America

The type

Type

500 Pesos, Banco Central de Chile, 1992

Portrait

Pedro de Valdivia

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — the issuing bank

Banco Central de Chile

The Central Bank of Chile

Symbology

Portrait of Pedro de Valdivia

Conquistador and founder of Santiago.

Conquistador portrait

Pedro de Valdivia, who founded Santiago in 1541 - a republic naming its origin in a conquest.

What was happening

A circulating national banknote of the modern era: a central bank, a national portrait, and a currency backed by nothing but the institution that issues it — the arrangement every note earlier in this collection was either trying to establish or failing to maintain.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 500 Pesos, Banco Central de Chile, 1992 in the collection.