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Here is another state-of-the arts website
that is as pretty to view as it is full of information and many
illustrations of Peruvian banknotes both old and new. This site is
still under construction, and hopefully, as time passes, Sr.
Corrales will add more to this site since he has left a lot of space
open for further submissions. The present only gives the viewer a
nice taste of more notes, back-ground, and stories to come.
Presently, this site is written mainly in
Spanish, but some of the notations are translated into English. All
of the explanations and history are in Spanish, and it is hoped that
the author of this site will add at least some English in the
future. This site is divided into twelve sub-groups. The active
collector will find most of the "meaty" information in the first
four or five groups. The viewer can easily go from one group to
another while in any of these subgroups.
The first subgroup is entitled Historia
del Billete Peruano or "History of the Peruvian Banknote." This
section is divided into chronological periods, which can be accessed
at the touch of a mouse click. When the user clicks on one of these
periods, three divisions appear for each time period: 1) a short
numismatic history of the period; 2) a list of banknotes issued
during this time period. The data includes the denomination,
printer, issues (usually blank), colors, and sizes; 3) various
beautifully reproduced pictures of sample notes of that period.
In the last, above-mentioned section, all of
the notes displayed are shown obverse side. On many of these notes,
however, if the viewer places the cursor on the obverse side and
clicks once, the reverse side appears. Other times the cursor
will turn into a hand, and a larger, more printable image of the
banknote appears for the viewer. These are very nice touches,
indeed, for some of the reverse sides are much more attractive and
interesting, in this evaluator's opinion, than the obverse sides.
This is a vertitable feast for the eyes. To the left of each screen
in a scrolled format appears a list of the Peruvian banks of that
time period.
The next section is El Arte en los
Billetes Peruanos, or "Art in Peruvian Banknotes." Featured here
are engravings, some allegorical and some showing mining activities
in Peru. Of particular note is the sign that says "Campania
Nacitonal de Billetes de Banco, Nueva York", or National
Banknote Company of New York. These faces and designs represent just
a few of those that appeared on the obverse and reverse sides of
many banknotes featured on this site.
Sr. Corrales states that this section is
still under construction, and it is hoped that Sr. Corrales will
expand this site of engraved artwork at his discretion. This site
represents the real beauty and art that banknote collecting is all
about. This is a most original and unique idea in banknote display,
and the reviewer would look forward to more of a long lost art,
namely engraving, on this Internet site.
The next section is entitled
Abreviaturas, or "Abbreviations." This page is a listing of
the printing companies that the Peruvian governments utilized
through the years to print their paper money. The reviewer went off
site to the Google search engine and tried to access some of the
printing companies listed. Some searches were successful. A
researcher could very easily obtain more information regarding the
printing companies used in these banknotes.
Again in the future, the reviewer wishes that
Sr. Carillo write some lines in the background of the printing
companies - both past as well as present - especially those located
in Peru itself. The Iquitos location, Imprenta el Oriente
looked very interesting since this city is located squarely in the
middle of the Amazonian jungle.
On the left side of this page is a listing of
the various trademarks used by these printing companies for the
Peruvian governments - a nice touch, indeed!
The next column box down on the home page is
Novedades, or "News." This is another page under
construction; it offers transparent pages and the like for sale.
Libros, Folletos Catalogos, or "Books,
Pamphlets, and Catalogs" follows. Sr. Carillo offers the reader an
ample selection of books for sale and lists an e-mail site where the
reader can write him for more information. All of these books for
sale are printed in Spanish.
The next two sections - Intercambios
(Exchanges) and Enlaces (Links) list items for sale and
provide thumbnails so that the reader can be guided to other sites
of interest.
The last section is entitled Venta de
Billetes or "Banknote Sale." This is a small collection of notes
for sale at this time. The next section is Condiciones de
Venta or "Selling Terms," which describes how a person would buy
bills directly from him in Peru. The website author provides an
email address in Contactame or "Contact me."
For those collectors and/or researchers out
there who want a deeper understanding of Peruvian paper money as
well as a visual treat, this is a most worthy and informative site.
Sr. Carrillo has done an excellent job of presenting an organized
and highly readable form of Peruvian banknote numismatics from its
colonial beginning down to the present day. Much of his website is
still under construction, and the topics presented here lend
themselves to even more interesting material that can be presented
in the future. Kudos goes to him in the expectation that we will see
bigger and better things in the future.
One bothering item about this site; many
times, the reviewer was cut off from his site on his Yahoo!
Geocities Site. A message read that this web site had exceeded its
alloted data transfer and that the reader would have to return
another time to complete a total perusal of this most interesting
site. It is hoped that Sr. Carrillo can rectify this problem in the
near future.
Other than this one rather annoying problem,
it was a pleasure to peruse this site. This is one web page that
possesses a lot of potential! If readers have a particular web site
to be reviewed, please send all information to: w9jdx@cybology.com |