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2 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Value | 2 Pesos (2 COP) |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette of Antonio Nariño in military uniform, rendered in intaglio, flanked by large numeral "2" counters on either side with intricate guilloche rosette underprints. The date "20 de Julio de 1915" and place of issue "Bogota" appear in the upper left. Signature lines for the Junta de Conversion members run along the lower portion, with the printer's imprint "American Bank Note Company" at the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | La Republica de Colombia Pagará al Portador la Suma de Dos Pesos Oro de Acuerdo con las Leyes (Translation: The Republic of Colombia Will pay to the Bearer Two Pesos Oro in Accordance with the Laws) |
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Colombia's paper currency in this period was issued under persistent fiscal strain — the country had barely recovered from the Thousand Days War (1899–1902), which had devastated public finances and triggered a catastrophic hyperinflation that wiped out the earlier peso papel moneda system. The 1907 monetary reform introduced the peso oro as a theoretically gold-backed unit, though convertibility remained largely nominal in practice.
ABNC held long-term contracts with the Colombian government across multiple denominations during this period, and the P#322 series was part of that broader relationship. Colombian notes of this era are frequently found with cancellation punches or manuscript annotations, applied by provincial treasury offices during the chaotic reissue cycles of the 1910s.