Catalog
1.000 Pesos
| Issuer | Dirección del Tesoro |
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| Year | 1912 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red-brown on white paper, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate guilloche rosette pattern at centre encircling the inscription 'REPÚBLICA DE CHILE'. Two large oval guilloche medallions bearing the numeral '1000' flank the central motif, all set within a dense geometric lathe-work border typical of American Bank Note Company engraving. |
| Reverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DE CHILE 1000 |
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The Dirección del Tesoro was Colombia's Treasury directorate acting in a quasi-central-bank capacity before the Banco de la República was established in 1923. Notes of this series were issued under persistent fiscal stress — Colombia had barely recovered from the devastating Thousand Days War (1899–1902), which had produced catastrophic monetary inflation and a near-total collapse of confidence in paper currency.
ABNC printed the series in New York, as they did for much of Latin America in this period. At 1,000 Pesos, this was a high-denomination instrument almost certainly used for interbank and government settlement rather than retail commerce.