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Green intaglio-printed note with an allegorical vignette of Justice at upper left and the Colombian Arms at lower right, set within an intricate guilloche border. The face carries the bank title and denomination in bold letterpress, dated Bogotá, September 1st, 1886. Serial number printed in red. |
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Printed in green, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate guilloche underprint with a large central cartouche enclosing ornate lathe-work, over which a red circular bank seal is applied at centre. Denomination numerals "50" appear at upper left and right flanking a script "L", with the bank title and value inscribed across the upper portion. The printer's imprint of the Homer Lee Bank Note Company appears at the lower centre. |
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The Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia was established by law in 1880 as a state monopoly issuer, replacing the chaotic network of private banks that had flooded the country with inconvertible paper. This 50 Centavos note belongs to the bank's earliest emission period, when the government was still attempting to enforce par convertibility — a policy that collapsed definitively by 1885 amid the civil war known as the War of a Thousand Days' precursor conflicts.
Homer Lee operated out of New York for barely a decade before being absorbed into larger consolidations, making their Colombian commissions among the few surviving examples of their work in Latin American fiscal printing.