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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco de Oriente |
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| Year | 1883 |
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| Value | 1 Peso |
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| Obverse description | Blue-tinted note with a central vignette of a mountain landscape within an oval frame, flanked on either side by large numeral "1" medallions with guilloche underprint. The upper portion carries the bank name "BANCO DE ORIENTE" in bold letterpress, with series and number designations at upper left and right respectively. A text band across the middle reads the obligation clause in Spanish, below which the place and date of issue appear above three manuscript signatures for the Cajero, Gerente, and Secretario de la Junta Directiva. Vertical side panels carry founding inscriptions referencing the bank's establishment by public deed in Rionegro on 15 March 1883. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE ORIENTE 1 1 |
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Banco de Oriente was one of several short-lived private Colombian banks that emerged following the 1871 banking law, which permitted free banking and led to a proliferation of regional note issuers — most of which collapsed or were absorbed within two decades. The bank operated out of the eastern interior, competing in a fragmented monetary environment where public trust in any given institution's paper was intensely local.
Colombian-printed private bank issues from this period are uncommon as a category. Most domestic printing of this era lacked the security features of notes produced by established European firms, and forgery was a known concern across the free-banking period.