Catalog
100 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Occidente |
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| Year | 1921-1926 |
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| Value | 100 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central vignette of a rural coffee-harvesting scene with figures working among trees, rendered in intaglio and set within an oval frame. To the left, the coat of arms of Guatemala appears within a circular medallion, flanked by intricate guilloche borderwork; to the right, a quetzal bird is printed within a decorative panel. The bank title BANCO DE OCCIDENTE EN QUEZALTENANGO arches across the upper portion, with the denomination CIEN PESOS and the promise to pay legend PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR EN MONEDA EFECTIVA inscribed below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE OCCIDENTE EN QUEZALTENANGO 100 |
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Banco de Occidente was a regional commercial bank based in Cali, operating under Colombia's free banking period before the 1923 Kemmerer Mission reorganized the country's monetary structure and effectively ended private note-issuing rights. This note predates that reform by at most two years — any example dated 1923 or later was almost certainly printed in advance and held in inventory rather than freshly authorized under the incoming central banking framework.
Waterlow & Sons produced the series, as they did for numerous Latin American regional issuers during this period. The S-prefix Pick number flags it as a private bank issue, a classification that also signals restricted geographic acceptance — these notes circulated primarily in the Cauca Valley commercial corridor, not nationally.