Catalog
1000 Pesos
| Issuer | República de Colombia (Junta Nacional de Amortización) |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| 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. |
| Reverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA MIL 1000 PESOS LIBERTAD Y ORDEN SECRETARIO DE LA JUNTA NACIONAL DE AMORTIZACIÓN Waterlow & Sons, Londres & Inglaterra (Translation: Republic of Colombia One Thousand 1000 Pesos Liberty and Order Secretary of the National Amortization Board Waterlow & Sons, London & England) |
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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.