20 Pesos Oro

€236,976.00
IssuerColombia
Year1953-1965
TypeStandard banknote
Value20 Pesos (20 COP)
CurrencyPeso decimalized (1847-date)
CompositionPaper
Size140 × 70 mm
ShapeRectangular
PrinterThomas De La Rue, London, United Kingdom
No. printed
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Reference(s) P#401
Obverse descriptionViolet color note with left side portrait of Francisco Jose de Caldas, inside an oval over which lies a full-body allegorical figure. Main lettering is on the middle, serial number in red color, over a background image of a plane flying over a river, with vegetation and palm trees on the closer shore and mountains on the other. A right facing portrait of Lady Liberty is inside a circle, on the right side of the note.
Reverse descriptionViolet color image of the central bank building in Barranquilla, with text above and below and large numbers 20 on the sides.
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Obverse letteringEL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR VEINTE PESOS ORO BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA 1° DE ENERO DE 1953
(Translation: The central bank of Colombia will pay the bearer of this note ten gold pesos Bogota, Colombia -date of issue-)
Reverse letteringBANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA EDIFICIO DEL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA EN BARRANQUILLA BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
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Catalog ID9342124010
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