1 Peso

Banco Occidental was a regional Colombian bank operating out of Cali, and by 1914 it was already on borrowed time — the Law 51 of 1928 would eventually nationalize currency issuance entirely, but the earlier Ley 33 of 1903 had already set the framework that squeezed private banks out of note-issuing privileges over the following decade. This note was printed by the New York Bank Note Company, a firm that handled substantial Latin American commercial bank work in the early twentieth century before merging into the American Bank Note Company in 1879 — which raises a cataloguing question, since by 1914 the NYBНC had technically been absorbed, and surviving imprints bearing that name on later dates may reflect plate reuse or a retained trade imprint rather than an independent operation.