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500 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1942-1953 |
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| Currency | Peso decimalized (1847-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | El Banco de la República Pagará al Portador Quinientos Pesos Oro Bogota, Colombia El Gerente / El Secretario BOLIVAR AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY (Translation: The Bank of the Republic will pay to the Bearer Five Hundred Pesos Oro) |
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| Reverse lettering | Banco de la República Bogota Colombia Quinientos Pesos Oro AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY (Translation: Bank of the Republic Bogota Colombia Five Hundred Pesos Oro) |
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The 500 Pesos Oro denomination was among the highest values in regular Colombian circulation during this period, and the eleven-year date range on P#391 reflects a remarkably long run for a single design series — ABNC plates were expensive to commission, and Bogotá saw little reason to retire them while the engraving remained sharp and the notes were functioning without significant forgery pressure.
Wartime shipping constraints in the early 1940s occasionally complicated delivery schedules between New York and Colombia, though the ABNC maintained production continuity throughout. High-denomination notes of this series frequently returned to the Banco de la República's vaults between transactions rather than circulating freely, which means surviving examples span an unusually wide condition range.