Catalog
1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1886 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO NACIONAL DE LA REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA Pagará al portador á la vista UN PESO Bogotá, Septiembre 1º de 1886 No. PESO TENEDOR DE ESTE BILLETE |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in black and is divided into two main panels. The left panel displays a large ornamental numeral '1' rendered in intricate lathe-work and engine-turned guilloche patterns, framed by decorative corner rosettes. The right panel contains the denomination inscription 'UN PESO' within a rectangular guilloche frame bordered by a Greek-key meander pattern, with the numeral '1' repeated in each corner medallion. |
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The Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia was established in 1881 under the administration of Rafael Núñez, and its notes replaced the fractured currency output of the country's numerous private banks. This 1 Peso belongs to an early phase of that centralization — a deliberate political project as much as a monetary one, pushing back against the federalist banking arrangements of the prior decades.
Printed domestically in Bogotá rather than contracted abroad, as was common among Latin American issuers of the period, the production quality reflects the limitations of local printing infrastructure in the 1880s. That domestic origin makes this note historically distinct from the foreign-printed issues that followed later reforms.