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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Value | 1 Peso |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black with a pink-red underprint and carries a portrait vignette of a bearded gentleman set within an oval laurel wreath at the left. The central text block carries the bank title, the promise-to-pay clause, the denomination in words, and the place and date of issue, while a large ornate guilloché numeral '1' occupies the right panel. The serial number appears in red at the lower left, with manuscript signatures of the Ministro de Tesoro and Miembros de la Junta de Emisión below the central text. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL UNO DE LA REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA LITOGRAFÍA NACIONAL |
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The Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia had a troubled final chapter. Founded in 1881 under the Rionegro-era liberal government, it became a flashpoint during the Thousand Days War (1899–1902), when the government printed currency on a massive scale to fund military operations. Inflation rendered most of its later emissions nearly worthless before the bank was formally liquidated in 1904 and replaced by the Banco Central.
Printed domestically by the Litografía Nacional in Bogotá, this note is one of the few Colombian issues of the period not contracted abroad — most earlier emissions went to the American Bank Note Company. That domestic production reflects both wartime circumstance and the practical impossibility of transatlantic contracting under blockade conditions.