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100 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1893 |
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| Value | 100 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Green and black bicolour note with the bank title 'BANCO NACIONAL DE LA REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA' set in capital letters across the upper register. A central oval vignette contains a cherub figure amid fruit and foliage, flanked to the left by the Colombian national coat of arms within an oval medallion and to the right by an intaglio portrait of a uniformed military figure. The denomination 'CIEN PESOS' appears in bold letterpress at the lower centre, with '100' corner counters at each angle and two serial number impressions in the upper field. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE LA REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA Pagará al portador CIEN PESOS A LA VISTA EN MONEDA CORRIENTE EL DIRECTOR GERENTE BOGOTÁ, ENERO 2 DE 1893 American Bank Note Co. New York |
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The Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia had a turbulent institutional life — it was forced into liquidation by the Colombian government in 1894, just a year after this note was issued, following sustained opposition from private banks and Liberal political factions who viewed it as an instrument of Conservative fiscal control. Notes from 1893 were among the last the institution produced before that closure.
American Bank Note Company held the contract throughout the bank's existence. The 100 Pesos denomination circulated during a period of mounting monetary pressure that would, within a few years, produce the catastrophic paper money inflation of the Thousand Days War.