Catalog
| Issuer | Banco de Occidente |
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| Year | 1921-1926 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE OCCIDENTE EN QUEZALTENANGO CIEN PESOS PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR EN MONEDA EFECTIVA PRESENTACION 100 PESOS CIEN |
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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.