1000 Pesos

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.