Catalog
1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1893 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE LA REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA Pagará al portador á LA VISTA UN PESO EN MONEDA CORRIENTE Bogotá Enero 2 de 1893 EL DIRECTOR GERENTE VOCALES DEL CONSEJO DE EMISIÓN AMERICAN BANK NOTE CO. NEW YORK UN PESO CUATRO DÉCIMOS |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE LA REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA EL CAJERO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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The Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia had a turbulent institutional life — Congress abolished it in 1894, just a year after this note's issue date, following persistent accusations that the bank was being used to finance government deficits through unchecked emission. This note sits near the end of that run.
ABNC produced the series from New York, as they did for a significant portion of Latin American paper at the time. Colombian notes of this period are frequently encountered with punch cancellations or manuscript cancels, applied during demonetization — clean uncancelled survivors are the exception.