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1 Peso Oro
| Issuer | Tesorería General de la República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by an oval intaglio vignette at left showing a bust portrait of Simón Bolívar in military uniform, captioned BOLIVAR below. The centre carries a large red overprint reading BONO DEL TESORO across the face, with a guilloche medallion bearing the numeral UNO. The header reads LA REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA / PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR LA SUMA DE, with the place and date BOGOTÁ, 20 DE JULIO DE 1915 below, and the denomination UN PESO ORO / DE ACUERDO CON LAS LEYES at the foot, flanked by series and serial number indicators. |
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| Reverse lettering | BONO DEL TESORO REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA UNO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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Colombia's Tesorería General — the national treasury, not a central bank — issued this note during a period when the country lacked a permanent central issuing authority. The Banco de la República would not be established until 1923, leaving the treasury to fill the gap with its own paper. The "Oro" designation was meaningful: it pledged convertibility to gold pesos, a promise the government struggled to keep given chronic fiscal instability in the years following the Thousand Days War.
ABNC's involvement guaranteed engraving quality far exceeding the denomination's face value, a common feature of Latin American treasury contracts with New York security printers in this period.