Vertical format elements: Jorge Isaacs at center, María (character) above; country name on top; signatures, place and issuing date on center left; issuer name on bottom. Horizontal elements: face value in numbers and letters on top left; serial # green on top center to left, red on lower right.
Reverse description
Vertical format elements: `El Paraíso` farm at center, fragment of `Maria` novel, bank seal on lower left, face value in letters on bottom. Horizontal elements: face value in numbers and letters on top right.
Signature(s)
Protection type
Watermark
Protection description
`50MIL` and Portrait of Jorge Isaacs.
Obverse lettering
COLOMBIA
SANTA FE DE BOGOTA
7 DE AGOSTO DE 2000
JORGE ISAACS
BANCO DE LA REPUBLICA
50 MIL
PESOS (Translation: Colombia Santa Fe de Bogota August 7th., 2000 Jorge Isaacs Bank of the Republic 50 thousand Pesos)
Reverse lettering
Una tarde, tarde como las de mi país,
engalanada con
nubes de color violeta y lampos de oro pálido, bella
como María, bella y transitoria como fue ésta para mi,
ella, mi hermana y yo, sentados sobre la ancha piedra de
la pendiente, desde donde veíamos a la derecha en la hon-
da vega rodar las corrientes bulliciosas del río, y tenien-
do a nuestros pies el valle majestuoso y callado, leía yo el
episodio de Atala, y las dos, admirables en su inmovilidad
y abandono...
BANCO DE LA REPUBLICA
• COLOMBIA •
CINCUENTA MIL PESOS
50 MIL
PESOS
SANTA FE DE BOGOTA (Translation: An afternoon, afternoon like those in my country, adorned with clouds of violet color and lightinings of pale gold, beautiful like Maria, beautiful and transitory as she was for me, she, my sister and I, sitting on the broad stone of the slope, from where we saw to the right in the deep vega roll the bustling currents of the river, and having at our feet the majestic and quiet valley, I read the episode of Atala, and both, admirable in their immobility and abandonment... Bank of the Republic - Colombia 50 thousand Pesos Santa Fe de Bogotá)