Catalog
20 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Reference(s) | P#276, Hernández#774 |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO NACIONAL DE LA REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR Á LA VISTA VEINTE PESOS EN MONEDA CORRIENTE BOGOTÁ, 30 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1900. (Translation: The National Bank of Republic of Colombia Pay to bearer at sight Twenty Pesos In currency Bogota, September 30, 1900.) |
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| Reverse lettering | VEINTE 20 EL BANCO NACIONAL DE LA REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA (Translation: The National Bank of Republic of Colombia Twenty Pesos) |
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The Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia had a troubled final chapter. The bank was liquidated by government decree in 1894 following years of accusations of over-issuance and political manipulation of the money supply, yet notes continued to circulate and be honored well into the following decade — which explains how a bank formally abolished six years earlier was still producing dated obligations in 1900.
Printing by the Litografía Nacional in Bogotá rather than a European security printer was a deliberate cost-cutting measure during a period of severe fiscal strain, one that contributed to the variable print quality seen across surviving examples of this series.