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1 Peso Oro

Issuer Junta de Conversión de Colombia
Year 1915
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Currency Peso decimalized (1847-date)
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Obverse lettering La Republica de Colombia Pagará al Portador la Suma de Un Peso Oro de Acuerdo con las Leyes
Los Miembros de la Junta de Conversión
UN PESO ORO
Bogotá, 20 de Julio de 1915
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Reverse lettering Republica de Colombia
UNO
DE COLOMBIA
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The Junta de Conversión was established specifically to manage Colombia's catastrophic post-war monetary mess following the Thousand Days War, which had ended in 1902 leaving the country flooded with depreciated paper from multiple competing issues. By 1915 the Junta was still working through the conversion process that gave it its name — exchanging the old inflated paper for new notes at fixed rates. This 1 Peso Oro was part of that stabilization apparatus, the "Oro" designation signifying notional gold backing rather than actual convertibility.

ABNC produced a conservative but technically accomplished plate for the series.

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