Product Description
B622 - (P156) - Grade: UNCDate: 16 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1980.
Sig. 42: Rendueles/Palazuelo/Urdiola.
Colour: Orange, red, brown, and blue.
Front: Spanish text; cross as registration device; novelist,
Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña (Clarín); coat of arms.
Back: Spanish text; El Carbayón oak tree in Oviedo; cross; handwritten fragment of Clarín’s novel, “La Regenta” (The Regent).
Green solid security thread. - Watermark: Head of Leopoldo Alas.
Printer: FCA NAL DE MONEDA Y TIMBRE.
Size: 120 x 65 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
