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½ Chimbo Oro Park Recuca
| Issuer | Recuca (Recorrido de la Cultura Cafetera), Calarcá, Quindío, Colombia |
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| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned didactic note modelled on the Colombian ½ Peso type, with guilloche underprint and ornate cartouches at left and right each bearing the fraction ½. Central vignette shows a portrait of "Lucho Recuca" in white shirt and hat within an engraved frame, flanked by simulated signature lines for El Ministro de Hacienda, El Contralor General, and El Tesorero General. Header reads REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA above PAGARÁ AL RECOLECTOR. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA PAGARÁ AL RECOLECTOR RECUCA, mayo 8 de 1912 WWW.RECUCA.COM SERIE C EL CONTRALOR GENERAL EL MINISTRO DE HACIENDA Y CRÉDITO PÚBLICO EL TESORERO GENERAL Lucho Recuca Mayordueño MEDIO CHIMBO ORO DE ACUERDO CON LAS LEYES BILLETE DIDÁCTICO SIN VALOR COMERCIAL FUENTE: BILLETE DE ½ PESO-Banco de La República ½ |
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Recuca is a coffee-themed cultural park in Calarcá, in Colombia's Quindío department, operating within the Coffee Cultural Landscape — a UNESCO World Heritage zone since 2011. The park issued its own scrip denominated in "Chimbo Oro," a unit entirely internal to the attraction, used for transactions within the grounds rather than in any broader local economy. This is promotional scrip in the strictest sense: souvenir currency with a functional purpose, not a monetary crisis instrument or emergency issue.
The denomination "½ Chimbo Oro" is unusually small for this type of private tourism scrip, suggesting a pricing structure granular enough to require fractional units at point of sale.