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10 000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la República, Colombia |
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| Year | 2015-2020 |
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| Printer | Imprenta de Billetes, Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 MIL PESOS DIEZ MIL PESOS AMAZONAS Y LA GENTE DE RÍO VICTORIA REGIA Victoria amazonica BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA COLOMBIA BRC "MADRES SOLTERAS DE TODOS LOS SITIOS COLOMBIANOS, CO-ESPOSAS QUE COMPARTEN EL PAN Y EL MARIDO TRANSEÚNTE, MUJERES QUE VIVEN EL PERIÓDICO ABANDONO DE SU HOMBRE, (...) MADRES QUE CONCIBEN, GESTAN Y PAREN EN TUGURIOS, (...) MADRES TODAS QUE GANAN EL PAN, QUE LO MULTIPLICAN EN LA BOCA DE SUS HIJOS HAMBREADOS Y LO MEZQUIÑAN EN LA PROPIA, (...) PARA VOSOTRAS, MI TRABAJO Y MI FE SIN LÍMITES" VIRGINIA GUTIÉRREZ DE PINEDA IMPRENTA DE BILLETES - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2016 (Translation: 10 THOUSAND PESOS / TEN THOUSAND PESOS / AMAZON AND THE RIVER PEOPLE / VICTORIA REGIA / Victoria amazonica / BANK OF THE REPUBLIC / COLOMBIA / BRC / "Single mothers from all Colombian places, co-wives who share bread and the transient husband, women who endure the periodic abandonment of their man, (...) mothers who conceive, carry and give birth in slums, (...) all mothers who earn the bread, who multiply it in the mouths of their hungry children and skimp on their own, (...) for you, my work and my faith without limits" / VIRGINIA GUTIÉRREZ DE PINEDA / BANKNOTE PRINTING HOUSE - BANK OF THE REPUBLIC / 2 AUGUST 2016) |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda and electrotype '10'; three vertical windowed security threads inscribed 'BRC' |
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Colombia's Banco de la República has operated its own printing facility — the Imprenta de Billetes — since 1959, one of the few central banks in Latin America to maintain fully domestic production for its entire circulating series. The 10,000 Peso denomination has been a workhorse note through successive inflationary pressures that eroded the purchasing power of lower denominations to near-irrelevance by the 2010s.
Pick 460 runs across a six-year window with relatively minor security upgrades between print years. The watermark and embedded thread specification is modest by contemporary standards — Colombian issues of this period were already being phased toward polymer in lower denominations, though this note retained cotton stock throughout the series run.