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100 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional |
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| Year | 1883 |
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| Currency | Peso moneda nacional (1881-1969) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on pink-tinted paper with elaborate guilloche borders and corner numerals '100'. To the left, a classical allegorical vignette presents two female figures in a landscape with a sailing vessel in the distance, flanked by the Argentine national arms. To the right, an intaglio portrait of a gentleman in formal attire is set within an oval frame. The central panel carries the issuer's name, the promise-to-pay legend, the denomination in large letterpress type, and manuscript date and series designations. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, consisting of plain white cotton paper with no vignette, text, or decorative elements. A pencilled manuscript notation reading 'May 1883' appears in the lower centre area, likely a contemporary annotation. |
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Banco Nacional was one of several private banks authorized to issue currency in Colombia during the 1880s — not to be confused with the later state-owned Banco Nacional established by the government of Carlos Holguín Mallarino in 1888, which eventually absorbed or displaced many of these private issuers. The PS prefix in the Pick catalogue places this firmly in the speciman or private bank category, and at the 100 Peso denomination, actual circulation of this note was likely limited.
ABNC engraved and printed the bulk of Latin American private bank paper in this period from their Manhattan facilities, with the quality of intaglio work serving as a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure in markets where local printing infrastructure was unreliable.