Catalog
1 Peso Cédula de Tesorería; Provisional Issue
| Issuer | Tesorería General de la República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR 1 UNO UN PESO ORO Ó SU EQUIVALENTE EN MONEDA LEGAL BOGOTÁ, ABRIL 1º DE 1919 (Translation: Republic of Colombia Will pay to the Bearer One Peso gold or its equivalent in legal tender Bogotá, April 1st., 1919) |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red. An intricate guilloche framework frames the face of the note, with the Colombian national arms rendered as a central oval vignette. Six lines of legal text appear above three manuscript signatures, with printed signature title designations for the Ministro de Tesoro, El Jefe de la Sección de Crédito Público, and El Tesorero General. |
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Colombia's Tesorería General stepped in as issuer here because the Banco Nacional — the republic's main note-issuing institution — had been liquidated by law in 1894 following chronic over-issuance and the inflation crises of the 1880s and 1890s. Treasury notes of this type were a stopgap measure in an economy that would not establish its central bank, the Banco de la República, until 1923.
ABNC printed the series in New York on contract, as they did for a substantial portion of Latin American fiduciary paper in this period. The "provisional" designation in the title is not rhetorical — these cédulas were explicitly intended as a temporary instrument pending a more permanent monetary settlement that kept being deferred.