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100 Pesos Oro

Issuer Banco de la República
Year 1991
Type Pattern or trial banknote
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Protection type Watermark
Protection description Oval blank watermark area visible on both obverse and reverse, typical of trial or specimen production without a finished watermark element
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Colombia's Banco de la República brought its banknote printing fully in-house during the 1970s and 1980s, and by 1991 the IBBR operation in Bogotá was handling the entire domestic series without foreign contractor involvement — a relatively rare position for a Latin American central bank at the time. This 100 Pesos Oro note was issued in the final years of the denomination's practical usefulness; hyperinflationary pressure through the late 1980s had so eroded purchasing power that the 100-peso note was functionally obsolete within a few years of printing.

The peso oro designation was formally retired when Colombia redenominated and introduced the peso in 1993.