Catalog
1000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la República, Colombia |
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| Year | 2005-2016 |
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| Printer | Imprenta de Billetes, Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA COLOMBIA 1000 MIL PESOS GERENTE GENERAL GERENTE EJECUTIVO (Translation: Bank of the Republic / Colombia / 1000 One Thousand Pesos / General Manager / Executive Manager) |
| Reverse description | The reverse centres on a large intaglio portrait of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán with his right hand raised in a characteristic oratorical gesture, set against a guilloche underprint. Two quotations attributed to Gaitán appear in the design: 'Yo no soy un hombre, soy un pueblo' and 'El pueblo es superior a sus dirigentes'. The denomination '1000' and the country name 'COLOMBIA' frame the composition. |
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Colombia's Banco de la República has operated its own intaglio printing facility in Bogotá since 1959 — one of the few central banks in Latin America to maintain full in-house production rather than contracting to De La Rue or the American Bank Note Company. That institutional self-sufficiency means the 1000 Pesos series was produced, issued, and quality-controlled without foreign involvement, which kept production costs denominated in local currency and insulated the supply chain from exchange rate pressures during the mid-2000s peso volatility.
Cotton substrate with a basic thread-and-watermark security package places this squarely in the transitional period before Colombia's more aggressive polymer and holographic upgrades rolled out in higher denominations. The 1000 Pesos was retired as purchasing power made it increasingly impractical for everyday transactions.