Product Description
B623 - (P157) - Grade: UNCDate: 23 DE OCTUBRE DE 1979
Sign. 42: Rendueles/Palazuelo/Urdiola.
Colour: Blue, black, red, and green. - Front: Spanish text; flowering tree branch as registration
device; writer, María Rosalía Rita de Castro; coat of arms.
Back: Spanish text; CasaMuseo de Rosalía (House Museum of Rosalía de Castro) in Padrón; flowering tree branch; Galician handwritten fragment of Rosalía’s poem, “Follas Novas” (New Leaves).
Green solid security thread. - Watermark: Head of Rosalía de Castro.
Printer: FCA NAL DE MONEDA Y TIMBRE.
Size: 129 x 70 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
