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100 Pesos

Issuer Banco de Barranquilla
Year 1900
Type Standard circulation banknote
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Reverse lettering CIEN
100
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Protection type Guilloche underprint
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Banco de Barranquilla was one of several private Colombian regional banks empowered to issue currency under the 1880 banking legislation — a deliberate decentralization pushed through after years of monetary instability under centralized republican control. The bank itself was closely tied to Barranquilla's role as Colombia's primary Caribbean port, and its notes circulated heavily in the import-export trade moving through that corridor.

By 1900, Colombia was deep in the War of a Thousand Days, the civil conflict that would eventually end private bank issuance entirely. Notes from this period often show heavy circulation wear precisely because the war disrupted normal banking rhythms and redemption became unreliable.

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