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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco Nacional |
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| Year | 1881 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black and purple intaglio engraving on white paper with a fine guilloche underprint border running along the top and bottom margins. At left, an oval vignette of a young woman in classical dress; at center, an allegorical vignette of a reclining female figure with a globe and anchor; at right, a portrait vignette of a uniformed military figure. The denomination 'UN PESO' appears in a central panel, with the issuer's title 'EL BANCO NACIONAL' in large letters across the upper portion and place/date inscriptions reading 'BUENOS AIRES, Enero 1° de 1883' at upper right. |
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| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO NACIONAL BUENOS AIRES AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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Banco Nacional was one of several private banks operating in Colombia under concession in the early 1880s, and this note predates the state monopoly on currency issue that would come with the later Banco Nacional de Colombia. The American Bank Note Company held an effective monopoly on high-quality intaglio printing for Latin American clients at this period, and Colombian banks returned to them repeatedly through the decade.
The PS# prefix places this in the Andean catalog of privately issued notes — a category that saw heavy attrition during Colombia's chronic civil instability of the 1880s and 1890s, with many issues redeemed, repudiated, or simply lost.