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2 Pesos Oro Legal
| Issuer | Banco Industrial, Cartagena |
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| Year | 1905 |
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| Currency | Peso (1871-1907) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO INDUSTRIAL CARTAGENA – COLOMBIA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR DOS PESOS ORO LEGAL SÉRIE B Nº 00000 |
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| Reverse lettering | CONTRATO CELEBRADO ENTRE EL GOBIERNO NACIONAL Y EL BANCO INDUSTRIAL EL 18 DE MAYO DE 1918 CLÁUSULA 3ª LEY 24 DE 1905 (17 DE ABRIL), ART. 1° GANA INTERÉS DE CUATRO POR CIENTO (4%) ANUAL PAGADERO EL DIA 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE CADA AÑO ESTA CÉDULA ES AMORTIZABLE POR SORTEOS ANUALES EN EL CURSO DE DIEZ (10) AÑOS |
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Banco Industrial was a short-lived regional institution operating out of Cartagena during Colombia's post-War of the Thousand Days reconstruction period — a moment when the country's monetary system was in genuine disarray, with dozens of departmental and private banks issuing their own paper. The American Bank Note Company handled printing for a significant number of these Colombian provincial issuers, which is why ABNC-printed notes from this era vary so widely in institutional origin yet share recognizable production characteristics.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference places this firmly in the specialized Colombian state and private bank catalogue. Notes from Banco Industrial survive in small numbers; the bank does not appear to have operated long enough to build any meaningful circulation history outside the Bolívar department.