President Boric recalled a story from his time as a student leader, while he walked the halls of the monument to the Heroes of Iquique. Among those present, a member of the Navy gave him a 10,000-peso bill, with the face of Arturo Prat, to verify which landscape appears on the back.
President Gabriel Boricin the middle of the tour of the monument and crypt of the Heroes of Iquique and Punta Gruesa, where the remains of the combatants of the Esmeralda rest, recalled a story that he lived in his time as a student leader.
The Commander in Chief of the Navy, Admiral Juan Andrés de la Maza, led the visit to the mausoleum and commented to the President on the history of the naval heroes buried there.
“Sergeant Aldea was chillanejo. Many of the crew members of the two ships were not from Santiago, they were from all over Chile. Prat was from Ninhue ”De la Maza commented.
memory of ninhue
Boric recalled that “the 10,000-peso bill, which has the face of Arturo Prat, was on the back before the town of Ninhue. I don’t know by whose decision it was changed recently.”
“For the 2010 earthquake I worked at FECH, the Federation of Students of the (University of) Chile, and we had to go with the (now) Minister of National Assets, Javiera Toro, to an outpost to see what we might collaborate on in volunteer work and we went to Ninhue, which was a very affected town, with many adobe houses”, recalled the President.
He explained that the residents “were deeply hurt, because it had been decided to withdraw the memory of Prat’s birthplace.”
“I don’t remember… does anyone have a 10 lucas bill? what is behind now?, the President consulted those present. “Pure credit card,” they replied, laughing.
One of the members of the Navy took out a ticket and the President confirmed that the Stoppani glacier is currently on the list, a landscape of the Alberto de Agostini National Parklocated in the Magallanes region.
History of banknote exchange
The current 10,000-peso paper money was launched precisely in 2010, as part of a new family of bills that came into circulation.
The decision to change the design was made by the Central Bank, then led by Vittorio Corbo, for -according to details an entity book– celebrate the bicentennial and add major security tools to the circulating
Since then, the new banknotes have new materials, such as polymer, transparent windows and better printing techniques, which prevent counterfeiting or make it easier to detect adulterations.
In addition, the banknotes are of different lengths (7 millimeters of difference between each one) and have a tactile surface, which helps to identify them by the visually impaired population.
To define the designs, the BC convened a council of experts from the art world. Milan Ivelicformer director of the National Museum of Fine Arts, proposed that paper money carry national park postcards as a guiding and iconographic thread that represents the territory.
The traditional faces of the previous generation were preserved, with Arturo Prat, Gabriela Mistral, Andrés Bello, Manuel Rodríguez and Ignacio Carrera, and along with the national parks, Chilean fauna animals. In the case of the 10 thousand, it is a condor.
