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1 Peso Banco del Norte
| Issuer | Banco del Norte |
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| Year | 1882 |
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| Printer | Litografía D. Paredes, Bogotá, Colombia |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 SERIE A Nº _____ EL BANCO DEL NORTE pagará al portador á la vista UN PESO Socorro, Enero 1º de 1882 EL 2º DIRECTOR EL DIRECTOR GERENTE EL 3er DIRECTOR HORAS DE DESPACHO DE LAS 10 DE LA MAÑANA A LAS 3 DE LA TARDE DE CADA DIA NO FERIADO ESTABLECIDO POR ESCRITURA DE 25 DE SETIEMBRE DE 1881. Nº 330 ANTE EL NOTARIO DEL CIRCUITO DEL SOCORRO LIT. DE D. PAREDES, BOGOTÁ. (Translation: El Banco del Norte (The Bank of the North) will pay to the bearer at sight one Peso Socorro, January 1st, 1882. The 2nd Director, the Managing Director, the 3rd Director Dispatch hours: from 10 AM to 3 PM on every non-holiday day. Established by deed of September 25th, 1881, No. 330 before the Socorro Circuit Notary. Lithography of D. Paredes, Bogotá.) |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown ink without pictorial vignettes, with the issuer's name set in large letters across the upper center and face value numerals flanking the lateral borders. A single ruled signature line bearing the printed title of the Cashier is positioned above center, and the lithographer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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Banco del Norte was one of several private Colombian banks chartered under the 1880 banking law, which allowed state and regional banks to issue their own circulating notes — a deliberately decentralized monetary arrangement that lasted until the Banco de la República absorbed the function in the 1920s. The bank operated in the Norte de Santander region, and notes printed locally by Litografía D. Paredes represent an unusually early example of Colombian banknote production done entirely within the country rather than contracted to foreign security printers.
Surviving examples are rare. The regional banks of this period issued in small volumes, circulated hard, and were rarely preserved.