Catalog
1 Peso Plata
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Value | 1 Peso (1 COP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Banco de la República Certificado de Plata Un Peso Plata Cambiable en el Banco de la República por Igual Valor en Monedas Legales de Plata Bogotá, 1° de Enero de 1941 (Translation: Bank of the Republic / Silver Certificate / One Silver Peso / Exchangeable at the Bank of the Republic for Equal Value in Legal Tender Silver Coins / Bogotá, 1st of January 1941) |
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| Reverse lettering | Banco de la República Bogotá Colombia Certificado de Plata American Bank Note Company (Translation: Bank of the Republic / Bogotá Colombia / Silver Certificate / American Bank Note Company) |
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Colombia's Banco de la República turned to the American Bank Note Company for this series during a period when domestic printing infrastructure was not yet equipped for high-security currency production. The ABNC's New York plant handled the bulk of Colombian paper money output through much of the mid-twentieth century, and the relationship was long enough that the plates for several denominations were revised and reused across multiple dated issues without the public ever noticing the continuity.
The "Plata" designation is the telling detail — silver-denominated peso notes were a legal accounting distinction that persisted on Colombian currency well after silver convertibility had become largely theoretical.