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1000 Pesos
| Issuer | República de Colombia (Junta Nacional de Amortización) |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA de COLOMBIA BILLETE POR VALOR DE MIL PESOS AMORTIZABLE CONFORME Á LAS LEYES 1000 BOGOTÁ, Marzo de 1908. 1000 (Translation: Republic of Colombia Banknote for value of One Thousand Pesos Amortizable according to the laws Bogota, March 1908) |
| Reverse description | Printed in red. The Colombian national arms vignette occupies the centre, rendered with two flanking putti supporting the shield, beneath the motto ribbon reading LIBERTAD Y ORDEN and a condor above, all set within an elaborate guilloche framework. Denomination counters reading MIL in cartouches appear at left and right, with 1000 PESOS in further corner panels, and the printer's imprint of Waterlow & Sons inscribed along the lower margin below the Secretary's signature line. |
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The Junta Nacional de Amortización was Colombia's debt-management body, created specifically to handle the catastrophic monetary aftermath of the Thousand Days War (1899–1902) — one of the most destructive civil conflicts in Latin American history. The country emerged from that war with a currency in ruins, massive internal debt, and a paper money supply that had inflated beyond any practical anchor to specie.
A 1,000 Peso denomination in this period was not everyday tender. Waterlow & Sons produced the plates in London, as they did for much of Colombia's paper currency during this transitional decade before the Banco de la República was established in 1923.