Catalog
1 Peso Oro Bono del Tesoro; overprint
| Issuer | República de Colombia (Junta de Conversión) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black print on green and multicolour guilloche underprint. Portrait vignette of Simón Bolívar at left, within an ornate engraved border. A bold red letterpress overprint reading "BONO DEL TESORO" is applied across the face. |
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| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA 1 UNO DE COLOMBIA BONO DEL TESORO EMITIDO Y AMORTIZABLE POR LA JUNTA DE CONVERSIÓN LEY 6.A Y DECRETO Nº 188 DE 1922. Y ESCRITURA PUBLICA NUMERO 206 DE 3 DE FEBRERO DE 1922, OTORGADA EN LA NOTARIA 3a. DE BOGOTÁ (Translation: Republic of Colombia One Treasury Bond Issued and repayable by the Conversion Board. Law 6a. and Decree no. 188 of 1922. And public deed number 206 of February 3, 1922, granted in the 3rd Notary of Bogotá.) |
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The Junta de Conversión was Colombia's transitional monetary authority, established to manage the country's return to convertibility after the inflationary chaos of the War of the Thousand Days and its aftermath. By 1922, the Junta was issuing these Bonos del Tesoro as a form of treasury obligation with currency function — not strictly banknotes, but circulating as such in practice.
The overprint on this note almost certainly reflects a change in authorized signatory, issuing conditions, or redemption terms applied to an existing printed stock — a common ABNC-client practice that avoided the cost of a full new print order. Worth examining closely: such overprints on Colombian fiscal paper of this period vary considerably in ink color, placement, and even wording between batches.