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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco de Barranquilla |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the bank title EL BANCO DE BARRANQUILLA across the upper register within a decorative border, with an oval vignette containing the Colombian national coat of arms at left. The central field carries the denomination UN PESO in bold type, accompanied by the promise text PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA EN SU OFICINA and the manuscript date B'QUILLA Dbre. 19 de 1900. Two handwritten signatures of the Administrador and Cajero appear below the text block, with the word UNO in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | UN PESO Este billete de curso forzoso en todo el Departamento, es temporalmente inconvertible y circula bajo la responsabilidad del Gobierno Nacional según contrato de Diciembre de 1900. El Jefe Civil y Militar del Dpto. UNO SERIE UN PESO |
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Banco de Barranquilla was a regional private bank operating under Colombia's free banking era, a period in which dozens of departmental and municipal banks issued their own currency with minimal federal oversight. The arrangement was chaotic by design — the 1886 constitution had decentralized monetary authority, and coastal commercial houses in Barranquilla were eager to finance the booming export trade in tobacco and coffee without depending on Bogotá.
By 1900, the country was deep into the Thousand Days War, the brutal civil conflict that effectively ended Colombia's free banking period. Notes issued that year circulated under extraordinary duress, and many regional banks did not survive the subsequent monetary reforms that established the exclusive note-issuing privilege of the Banco Central in 1905.