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1 Peso Oro Bono del Tesoro; overprint
| Issuer | República de Colombia (Junta de Conversión) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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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 description | Green intaglio print on plain paper, with an elaborate guilloche border incorporating numeral "1" counters at each corner and "UNO" panels at left and right. The Colombian national arms appear as a central oval vignette, flanked by intricate lathe-work ornaments. A red letterpress overprint bearing the full legal text of the Bono del Tesoro authorization is applied over the central design, with "BONO DEL TESORO" in large letters across the top. The printer's imprint "AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY" appears at the bottom margin. |
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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.