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| 表面の説明 | The obverse is headed with the large inscription "UN PESO" repeated on either side of a central oval vignette portraying a classical female figure. The note was issued by El Banco Republicano on behalf of Banco de Medellín, with the place and date of issue "Medellín, 30 Octubre 1899" handwritten below the vignette. Four corner cartouches bear the names of the bank's founding shareholders, Colombian national flags appear as underprint elements in the lateral panels, and two manuscript signatures of bank officials appear at the lower centre alongside the series and serial number. |
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| 表面の銘文 | UN PESO Núm. 113800 Serie 1ª Medellín 30 Octubre 1899 EL BANCO REPUBLICANO pagará al portador a su vista la cantidad de UN PESO en monedas FUNDADO POR M.A. SANTA MARÍA & LALINDE FUNDADO POR LISANDRO M. URIBE FUNDADO POR MARIANO URIBE E HIJOS FUNDADO POR EDUARDO Y JULIÁN VASQUEZ J. |
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The Banco de Medellín was one of several private Colombian banks operating under the free banking framework established by the 1880 banking law, which permitted chartered institutions to issue their own notes backed by specie reserves. By 1899, that system was already under severe strain — the Thousand Days War, which began that same year, would devastate private bank reserves and ultimately hand the Colombian government the justification it needed to centralize currency issuance and suppress private note-issuing rights entirely.
Most Banco de Medellín notes were redeemed or destroyed in the monetary consolidation that followed. Survivors from the 1899 issues are correspondingly scarce.