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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.