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1 Peso Oro Acuñado
| Issuer | Banco de Bogotá |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red-orange intaglio, the reverse centres on a detailed vignette of a monumental statue on an ornate pedestal in a public square, flanked by elaborate guilloche scrollwork panels bearing large numeral 1 devices. The bank title BANCO DE BOGOTÁ appears at top with ESTABLECIDO EN 1870 on a ribbon below it, and UN PESO at foot with the American Bank Note Company imprint. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE BOGOTÁ ESTABLECIDO EN 1870 EL CAJERO ESTA CÉDULA HIPOTECARIA SE EMITE EN VIRTUD DE LO DISPUESTO POR EL CONGRESO DE 1919 Y EL GOBIERNO DEL BANCO NACIONAL Y EL BANCO DE BOGOTÁ UN PESO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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The Banco de Bogotá was a private commercial bank, not a central issuing authority — Colombia's fragmented pre-1923 banking system permitted chartered private institutions to circulate their own paper, and the Banco de Bogotá was among the most prominent. The denomination itself, "Peso Oro Acuñado," is deliberately specific: it pegged redemption to coined gold, distinguishing these notes from the severely depreciated paper pesos that had flooded Colombia during the Thousand Days War and its aftermath.
ABNC printed extensively for Colombian private banks during this period. The 1923 Kemmerer Mission banking reforms, which established the Banco de la República as a central bank, effectively ended private note issue — rendering this series obsolete within a few years of printing.