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The obverse is printed in black on pink-tinted paper and divided into three vertical panels. The left panel carries a vignette of a standing female figure in classical dress. The central panel bears the bank title EL BANCO DE SOPETRÁN in bold letterpress, below which the promise-to-pay text reads Pagará al portador y á la vista la cantidad de UN PESO de ley en monedas corrientes, with a date line and spaces for El Gerente and El Cajero signatures. The right panel contains a circular vignette of a bull's head, with the numeral 1 above, all framed within ornate guilloche borders. |
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The reverse is printed entirely in red on plain paper with a central oval portrait vignette of a classical male bust set within an elaborate guilloche frame. The word PESO appears in large letters to both the left and right of the central vignette, each flanked by the numeral 1 within ornamental cartouches. The entire design is enclosed within a repeating guilloche border. This example bears a perforated SPECIMEN / B.W.&Co. / LONDON overprint across the lower centre. |
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Banco de Sopetrán was a short-lived regional institution operating out of a small municipality in Antioquia, Colombia — one of dozens of private banks that proliferated under the country's 1865 free banking legislation, which allowed virtually any commercial entity to issue its own currency. The result was a chaotic monetary environment that persisted until the Banco Nacional was granted exclusive emission rights in 1886, after which most of these provincial issues were retired and destroyed.
Bradbury, Wilkinson engraved and printed for numerous Latin American issuers during this period, and the quality of their work almost always outlasted the banks that commissioned it. The survival rate for Sopetrán notes is extremely low.