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100 Pesos

Issuer Banco Central
Year 1907
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Obverse description Intaglio-printed note in black on pink-rose underprint. Central vignette of a seated allegorical female figure with a cherub at her feet, flanked left by the denomination numeral and guilloche work; to the right, an oval portrait of a bearded male figure. Header reads REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA with BANCO CENTRAL and BOGOTÁ.
Obverse lettering REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA
BANCO CENTRAL
BOGOTÁ
CIEN PESOS
PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA
ORO Ó SU EQUIVALENTE EN MONEDA LEGAL
SERIE
MUESTRA
SPECIMEN
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Comments

Banco Central is an unusual issuer name for 1907 — most Latin American countries operating under that designation did so decades later, following mid-century banking reforms. Exactly which national Banco Central this note belongs to should be confirmed against the full Pick catalog entry before attribution is finalized.

The American Bank Note Company printed extensively for Latin American clients throughout this period, often supplying complete note designs from their New York facilities rather than working from locally commissioned artwork. The engraved quality was generally high, and ABNC's security printing contracts gave smaller issuing institutions access to anti-counterfeiting standards they could not have produced domestically.

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