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50 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1888-1895 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio on blue and yellow underprint, with a portrait vignette of Simón Bolívar at left, the Colombian Arms at centre, and a seated allegorical female figure at right. The issuer's title runs across the top in bold letterpress, beneath which the promise-to-pay legend and the denomination appear in both words and numerals. The face date reads «MARZO 4 DE 1895» below the Bogotá place name. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse is covered by dense interlocking guilloche lacework filling the entire field. Two large circular guilloche medallions each bearing the numeral «50» are placed at left and right, flanking a central rectangular panel that accommodates the manuscript cashier's signature and a red circular bank seal. The bank's name is set in bold letterpress across the lower centre, with the printer's imprint «American Bank Note Co. New-York» appearing twice along the bottom margin. |
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The Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia had a turbulent institutional life — it was dissolved by Congress in 1894 amid accusations that the government was using it to finance deficits through unchecked note issuance, a charge that was essentially accurate. This note falls within that contested period, when the bank's paper was increasingly distrusted in domestic commerce despite being legal tender.
The American Bank Note Company contract was a common choice for Colombian issuers seeking engraved work that would resist counterfeiting, though by the early 1890s the volume of Banco Nacional emissions had outpaced any practical deterrent effect.