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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco de Cartagena |
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| Year | 1900 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset design with ornate guilloche rosettes at left and right margins. Central text panel carries the denomination UN PESO in large bold letters, with the bank title EL BANCO DE CARTAGENA across the top. Date inscription reads Cartagena, Marzo 10 de 1900, with two manuscript signatures above the printed titles GERENTE and CAJERO. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE CARTAGENA Pagara al portador a la vista en su oficina la suma de UN PESO en moneda legal y corriente Cartagena, Marzo 10 de 1900 GERENTE CAJERO UNO |
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Banco de Cartagena was one of several Colombian departmental banks operating under the 1880s banking liberalization, which allowed regional institutions to issue their own currency. By 1900, that system was already collapsing — the Thousand Days War began that same year, and most private bank emissions were effectively worthless or hoarded within months. Notes from this issuer are scarce precisely because the bank's operational window was so compressed.
Few Colombian private bank notes from this period survived in any quantity. The wartime disruption to normal commerce meant many were never redeemed through ordinary channels.