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100 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1983-1991 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Violet, brown, orange and dark red intaglio on multicolor guilloche underprint. Portrait of Antonio Nariño in military uniform at left, set against an intricate multicolor geometric underprint. Denomination and issuer inscriptions frame the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Red and dark brown intaglio on pink multicolor guilloche underprint. Central vignette presents a view of the colonial church and main square of Villa de Leyva (Boyacá), with the bank's allegorical seal medallion at upper centre. A vignette of a flat-bed letterpress machine appears at lower right, referencing the note's printing heritage. |
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The Banco de la República has printed its own notes in-house since 1959, one of the few central banks in Latin America to do so continuously. This note falls within a long run of domestic production at the bank's Bogotá facility — the same plant that also handled stamps and official documents — which gave the institution unusually tight control over security specifications, though the range of watermark complexity across the series reflects iterative improvements rather than a single fixed standard.
The "Pesos Oro" denomination designation, linking the unit nominally to gold, was already an anachronism by the 1980s. Colombia formally dropped the term when the peso was redenominated in 1993.