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500 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1992-1993 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA REPUBLICA QUINIENTOS PESOS ORO 500 PAGARA AL PORTADOR COLOMBIA SANTA FE DE BOGOTA GERENTE SECRETARIO SANTANDER |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the colonial courtyard of the Casa de Moneda in Santa Fe de Bogotá, rendered in fine intaglio line work, with arched colonnades, balconied upper floors, and a garden fountain at center. A circular medallion at upper center bears a classical allegorical female bust inscribed 'BANCO DE LA REPUBLICA BOGOTA COLOMBIA.' The Colombian coat of arms appears at upper left, with denomination numeral guilloché panels at lower left and lower right corners. |
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Colombia's state printing house, the Imprenta de Billetes, had by the early 1990s established a credible domestic production capability, and this note is entirely a local product — design, engraving, and manufacture all handled in Bogotá without recourse to the European security printers that earlier Colombian series had depended upon. The shift was deliberate policy, driven in part by cost and in part by a post-Gaitán-era nationalism in public institutions that ran deep into the 1990s.
The P#431A suffix indicates a variety distinction within the 1992–1993 run, likely a signature combination change. Watermarking remains the sole listed security feature, modest by the standards of the period.