カタログ
| 表面の説明 | Cream and black intaglio-printed note bearing the bank title EL BANCO POPULAR in bold serif lettering across the upper register, flanked by an oval vignette at left of two cherubic children in an embrace and a pastoral vignette at right of a seated shepherdess with sheep and lamb. The central inscription VEINTE Y CINCO PESOS in large letterpress text is accompanied by the promise-to-pay clause Pagará al portador á la vista en moneda corriente and the manuscript-style date Bogotá 1º de Enero de 1882 below, with numeral 25 corner panels at lower-left and upper-right. The word SPECIMEN is twice overprinted in red across the lower portion of the note. |
|---|---|
| 表面の銘文 | ログイン して詳細を見る |
| 裏面の説明 | ログイン して詳細を見る |
| 裏面の銘文 | EL BANCO EL CAJERO POPULAR 25 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
| 署名 | ログイン して詳細を見る |
| 偽造防止技術 | ログイン して詳細を見る |
| 偽造防止の説明 | ログイン して詳細を見る |
| バリエーション | ログイン して詳細を見る |
| コメント |
Banco Popular was one of several private Colombian banks granted note-issuing rights under the banking legislation of the 1870s, a period when the federal government deliberately decentralized monetary authority to the individual states and private institutions. The American Bank Note Company in New York handled the bulk of Colombian private bank commissions during this period — the engraving quality is characteristically sharp, a function of ABNC's intaglio process rather than any special commission.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference places this firmly in the Specialized catalogue's private bank section, where Colombian provincial bank paper from this decade clusters heavily. Most issues saw limited regional circulation before the national banking reforms of the 1880s curtailed private emission rights.