1.000 Pesos

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.