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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco del Progreso |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | UN PESO EL BANCO REPUBLICANO pagará al portador y á la vista la cantidad de UN PESO en monedas corrientes Medellín Núm. 154783 Serie 1ª El Gerente El Cajero FUNDADO POR M.A. SANTA MARÍA & LALINDE FUNDADO POR LISANDRO M. URIBE FUNDADO POR MARIANO URIBE É HIJOS FUNDADO POR EDUARDO Y JULIAN VASQUEZ J. |
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| Reverse lettering | Este billete está á cargo del BANCO DEL PROGRESO asimilado á libranza y hace parte de la cantidad convenida con el Gobierno Nacional, según el contrato de 7 de Septiembre de 1899. |
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Banco del Progreso was one of the numerous private Colombian banks that issued their own currency under the banking legislation of the 1870s and 1880s, before the state moved to centralize monetary control. By 1899, Colombia was edging toward the catastrophic Thousand Days War — the civil conflict that began that year and effectively ended the private banking era, with most of these institutions collapsing or being absorbed in the chaotic years that followed.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference places this firmly in the specials, meaning surviving specimens are typically encountered without full circulation history. Positively attributed examples with intact dates and signatures are uncommon.