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100 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Value | 10 Centavos (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO NACIONAL DE LA REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA PAGARA AL PORTADOR Á LA VISTA CIEN PESOS EN MONEDA CORRIENTE 100 BOGOTÁ, OCTUBRE 28 de 1899. (Translation: The National Bank of the Republic of Colombia will pay to bearer at sight One Hundred Pesos In currency Bogota, October 28, 1899.) |
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| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO NACIONAL DE LA REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA CIEN 100 PESOS CAJERO (Translation: The National Bank of the Republic of Colombia One Hundred Pesos Cashier) |
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The Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia had a troubled existence from the start — its monopoly on note issue, granted in 1881, generated sustained political opposition, and by 1894 the Colombian Congress had voted to liquidate it. The notes it continued issuing through the late 1890s, including this 100 Pesos, circulated during a period of institutional death already underway, against a backdrop of severe fiscal pressure preceding the Thousand Days War, which erupted in October 1899.
Otto Schroeder's Bogotá lithography house produced this locally rather than abroad — an unusual choice for high-denomination paper at a time when most Latin American issuers sent their prestige printing to London or New York. Whether that was a cost decision, a logistical one, or a nationalist preference is not established in the surviving record.