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100 Pesos
| Issuer | República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1904 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white cotton paper with a standing classical male figure holding a staff at the left margin. The centre bears the Colombian national arms within an ornate guilloche frame, flanked by large numeral '100' panels, surmounted by the arc inscription 'REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA' and the denomination legend 'BILLETE POR VALOR DE / CIEN PESOS' in bold letterpress. The lower portion carries the place-and-date line 'BOGOTA, Abril de 1904' with two manuscript signatures of the Ministerio del Tesoro and the Tesorero General de la República below. |
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| Reverse description | Brown intaglio print over an intricate guilloche underprint covering the entire surface. A central oval vignette encloses a panoramic view of a Colombian cityscape with mountainous terrain in the background, surrounded by ornate scrollwork borders. Large numeral '100' panels occupy the upper corners, with the arc inscription 'REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA' running along the upper portion of the central medallion. |
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Colombia's fiscal situation in 1904 was catastrophic. The Thousand Days War (1899–1902) had forced the government to print paper money in quantities that obliterated public confidence — the peso paper currency had collapsed to a fraction of its metallic equivalent, and inflation had been ruinous. This 100 Pesos note belongs to the immediate postwar reconstruction period, when the government was attempting to reassert monetary credibility through formally printed, professionally produced currency rather than the emergency emissions that had characterized the war years.
ABNC handled the engraving and printing in New York, as was standard for Colombian federal issues of this period. The contract itself was a deliberate signal of institutional seriousness after years of locally improvised wartime notes.