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1000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1994-1995 |
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| Currency | Peso decimalized (1847-date) |
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| Reverse description | The right half of the reverse carries an intaglio vignette of the monument 'A los Héroes del Pantano de Vargas (1819)', depicting a mounted lancer raising a lance on horseback with a cavalry charge in the background, referencing the Battle of Pantano de Vargas. At upper center, a circular medallion bears the Banco de la República seal with a classical female figure, enclosed by the legend 'BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA · BOGOTÁ COLOMBIA'. The denomination '1000' appears at upper-left and upper-right, with 'MIL PESOS' at lower-right and the printer's imprint 'IMPRENTA DE BILLETES · SANTA FE DE BOGOTA' at the bottom margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Colombia's central bank printing facility — the Imprenta de Billetes — was established in Bogotá in the 1950s, and by the 1990s was handling virtually the entire domestic currency output, a degree of self-sufficiency unusual among Latin American nations of comparable size. This note belongs to a transitional period: the city was officially renamed Santa Fe de Bogotá under the 1991 constitution, and the printer's imprint reflects that short-lived designation, used only until 2000 when the name reverted.
The watermark-only security suite is notably sparse for a four-figure denomination by mid-1990s standards, when security thread and color-shifting ink were already common among peer issuers.