Product Description
B624 (P158) - Grade: UNCDate: 23 DE OCTUBRE DE 1979.
Sig. 42: Rendueles/Palazuelo/Urdiola.
Colour: Green, blue, brown, and purple. Front: Spanish text; dragon tree as registration device; Joaquín Sorolla’s portrait of novelist, Benito Pérez Galdós; coat of arms.
Back: Spanish text; Mount Teide volcano on Tenerife; map of the Canary Islands; dragon tree; handwritten fragment of Benito Pérez Galdós’s novel, “Zaragoza,” of Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes).
Green solid security thread. Watermark: Head of Benito Pérez Galdós.
Printer: FCA NAL DE MONEDA Y TIMBRE. -
Size: 138 x 75 mm. - Material: Paper.
General information - 1979 - 1985 Issues
The Bank of Spain branches used ISS 300 PF machines to sort notes as they arrived to weed out counterfeits as well as notes unfit for circulation. Special “control” notes were printed with prefixes
consisting of the number 8 and a letter. Whenever these passed through a sorting machine, they were flagged as suspect, allowing the bank to track the circulation of notes throughout the country’s
financial system. These control notes command a premium, as do replacements.
Source: The Banknotebook
