Catalog
200 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Currency | Peso Oro (1931-1993) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of José Celestino Mutis at centre-left, rendered in intaglio on a green and light teal multicolour underprint, with a vignette of a colonial church tower to his left labelled 'MUTIS'. The issuer inscription 'EL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA' and denomination 'DOSCIENTOS PESOS ORO' appear in bold letterpress at upper centre and centre-right respectively, with the legend 'PAGARA AL PORTADOR' above the denomination. Two facsimile signatures appear below the denomination with the titles 'GERENTE' and 'SECRETARIO', and the date 'SANTA FE DE BOGOTÁ, 10 DE AGOSTO DE 1992' is printed at lower centre above 'COLOMBIA'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by an intaglio vignette of the Claustro Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario and its adjoining Romanesque-style church façade at right, set against a pale green and lavender guilloche underprint. At upper left, the Colombian coat of arms appears alongside a small bust portrait within a circular frame, with ornate scrollwork and the Banco de la República seal. A partially unrolled scroll with text is depicted at lower centre, and the denomination 'DOSCIENTOS PESOS ORO' is lettered in bold across the bottom. |
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Colombia's central bank has operated its own intaglio printing facility in Bogotá since 1959, making it one of a small number of central banks in Latin America to produce its notes entirely in-house. The P#429A is a product of that facility — no foreign security printer involved, which was a point of institutional pride for the Banco de la República throughout this period.
By 1992, the 200 Pesos Oro denomination was functionally obsolete. Inflation had so eroded purchasing power that this note was worth less than a local phone call. It was demonetized and replaced by coinage, a fate shared by several low denominations in the early 1990s before Colombia's broader monetary restructuring introduced the Peso in 1993, dropping three zeros from the currency.