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30 000 Pesos Bolivar
| Issuer | Banco de la República (Colombia) |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Currency | Peso decimalized (1847-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA - SANTA MARTA MUERTE DEL LIBERTADOR DICIEMBRE 17 1830 - 1980 (Translation: Republic of Colombia - Santa Marta / Death of the Liberator / December 17 / 1830 - 1980) |
| Reverse description | Central device depicts the Arms of Gran Colombia, featuring a fasces surmounted by a liberty cap on a pike, flanked by two cornucopias overflowing with fruit and foliage, the entire composition bound at the base with a ribbon bow, all rendered in high relief on a mirror-polished proof field. The curved legend ESCUDO DE LA GRAN COLOMBIA arcs along the upper periphery. The fineness LEY 0,900 appears at lower left and the weight designation 1 ONZA ORO FINO at lower right, with the denomination 30000 PESOS and the date 1980 inscribed along the lower rim. |
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Colombia issued this coin to commemorate Simón Bolívar, but the timing matters: 1980 placed it squarely within a period when the Colombian government was aggressively using commemorative gold issues as both prestige objects and hard-currency instruments, often sold directly to foreign buyers and collector markets rather than circulated domestically. The 34.58g gold weight was not arbitrary — it was calibrated to align with existing international bullion coin conventions, making the piece tradeable on commodity terms.
KM#269 is sometimes confused with earlier Bolívar commemoratives in the series; the 1980 date distinguishes it from the 1969 issues struck for the sesquicentennial of his death.