Catalog
200 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Value | 200 Pesos (200 COP) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA PAGARA AL PORTADOR DOSCIENTOS PESOS ORO BOGOTÁ, 1 ABRIL DE 1983 COLOMBIA (Translation: The Bank of the Republic will pay to the bearer Two Hundred Pesos Oro, Bogotá, 1 April 1983, Colombia) |
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| Protection description | José Celestino Mutis portrait visible in the blank oval field on both sides; embedded security thread running vertically through the paper. |
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The 200 Pesos Oro denomination was introduced into Colombian circulation in the early 1980s as inflationary pressure steadily eroded the purchasing power of lower values. By 1983, 200 pesos was a genuinely functional denomination — not a prestige note, not an emergency stopgap — and De La Rue produced it to the same technical standard applied across the Colombian series at the time, including the embedded security thread that was still relatively uncommon in Latin American issues of that period.
Pick 428 is not a scarce note in circulated grades, but lightly handled examples are harder to locate than the survival numbers might suggest.