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200 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1978-1982 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette shows a coffee picker in a wide-brimmed straw hat gathering ripe red coffee cherries from laden branches, with a woven basket at his feet rendered in multicolour intaglio. To the upper right, a circular medallion bearing a female allegorical portrait is set within fine guilloche work, and a decorative spray of coffee branches with red berries appears at the far right margin. The left margin carries the denomination text in two lines, and the lower right corner displays the numeral '200' against the guilloche border. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 200 Pesos Oro denomination was introduced in 1974 as Colombia's economy absorbed the inflationary pressures of the 1970s commodity boom — coffee prices in particular spiked dramatically on world markets after the 1975 Brazilian frost, flooding the Colombian economy with export revenue and pushing demand for higher-denomination notes. By the time this series ran through 1982, the 200-peso note was already being outpaced; a 500-peso note had been introduced and the 200 would eventually be discontinued as inflation continued eroding its purchasing power.
Production split between Thomas De La Rue in London and the Imprenta de Billetes in Bogotá, which the Banco de la República had established specifically to bring banknote printing in-house. Notes from the two print runs are distinguishable by subtle differences in ink saturation and registration quality.