100 Pesos

Villaveces was a Bogotá commercial printing house, not a specialized security printer, and its involvement in producing official currency speaks directly to the fiscal disorder of late 19th-century Colombia — a period of chronic monetary fragmentation in which the national treasury repeatedly improvised its note production. The result was inconsistent printing quality across the series, and P#293C examples show notable variation in ink density and impression depth even within single batches.

The Tesorería notes of this era were often issued to cover immediate government obligations rather than as regulated monetary instruments backed by specie, a distinction that mattered little to creditors and everything to later redemption prospects.