Catalog
100 000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la República, Colombia |
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| Year | 2014-2020 |
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| Printer | Imprenta de Billetes, Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of President Carlos Lleras Restrepo at right, identified by the inscription 'CARLOS LLERAS RESTREPO / PRESIDENTE DE LA REPÚBLICA / DE COLOMBIA (1966–1970)', with a full-length vignette of the same subject at left against a geometric guilloche underprint in teal and pale violet tones. A color-shifting holographic flower element incorporating the numeral '100' and a Sietecolores bird vignette appear at centre-left, alongside a microtext-underprinted map outline of Colombia; facsimile signatures for 'GERENTE GENERAL' and 'GERENTE EJECUTIVO' are placed at lower left beneath the issuer inscription 'BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA / COLOMBIA'. |
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| Protection description | Watermark portrait of Carlos Lleras Restrepo and electrotype numeral '100' visible when held to light; vertical windowed security thread with 'BRC' microtext running through the centre of the note; color-shifting holographic flower element at centre-left of obverse incorporating the numeral '100'; the denomination numeral on the reverse. |
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Colombia's highest-denomination note for much of the 2010s, the 100,000 Peso note was produced entirely in-house at the Banco de la República's own printing facility in Bogotá — one of the few central banks in Latin America with a fully integrated security printing operation. The bank established its Imprenta de Billetes in 1959 specifically to reduce dependence on foreign printers, a policy decision that has held for decades.
The color-shifting ink and hologram strip place this squarely in the post-2000 regional push against high-denomination counterfeiting, which had become a serious problem across dollarized and semi-dollarized economies neighboring Colombia.