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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 is laid out with a central letterpress text panel bearing the bank name EL BANCO de BARRANQUILLA and the promise to pay the bearer on demand one peso en moneda legal y corriente, flanked at left by a circular vignette of the Colombian national coat of arms and at right by a circular vignette of a port or riverside scene. The entire composition is enclosed within a dense guilloche border incorporating repeated UNO numerals, with the issue date Barranquilla, Mayo 7 de 1900 printed below the denomination and Series J designation at lower left. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot of the note in the roles of El Aamor and El Cajero. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a single colour within an elaborate guilloche framework, with a large numeral 1 vignette at the upper centre flanked by ornamental foliate scrollwork. A central rectangular text panel carries the legal tender obligation text stating that the note circulates under forced currency throughout the Department under the responsibility of the National Government pursuant to the contract of 7 May 1900, below which a manuscript signature of the Jefe Civil y Militar del Departamento appears. Repeated UNO lettering runs along the upper and lower margins of the border. |
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The Banco de Barranquilla was one of several private regional banks operating under Colombia's free banking era, a period during which the national government effectively ceded note-issuing authority to commercial institutions. That arrangement collapsed with the War of the Thousand Days, the devastating civil conflict that began in 1899 and ran until 1902, which disrupted trade through Barranquilla's port and destabilized most of the private banks that had flourished in the preceding decades.
Printed locally rather than sent abroad to established security printers, the note reflects the relatively modest production resources available to regional Colombian banks of the period. Local printing invariably means thinner security features and greater variation between individual examples.