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1 Peso Oro Acuñado
| Issuer | Banco de Bogotá |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | CÉDULA HIPOTECARIA EL BANCO DE BOGOTÁ PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR SERIE X UN PESO ORO ACUÑADO ESTÁ CÉDULA ES AMORTIZABLE POR SORTEOS ANUALES EN EL CURSO DE DIEZ AÑOS. SE PAGA EN ORO ACUÑADO. INTERÉS CUATRO POR CIENTO ANUAL, PAGADERO EL 30 DE JUNIO DE CADA AÑO. CUATRO POR CIENTO BOGOTÁ EL DIRECTOR GERENTE EL SECRETARIO American Bank Note Company SPECIMEN |
| Reverse description | Printed in red-brown, the reverse centres on a detailed intaglio vignette of a monumental column or statue set on an ornate pedestal, framed by intricate guilloche scrollwork panels on either side, each incorporating large numeral 1 counters. The upper border carries BANCO DE BOGOTÁ with ESTABLECIDO EN 1870 on a curved ribbon beneath. EL CAJERO appears at lower left with a signature line, while a block of legal text at lower right cites the authorising legislation. The foot of the note reads UN PESO across the full width above the imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. |
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The Banco de Bogotá was a private commercial bank, not a central issuing authority, and its notes circulated alongside those of several competing private banks in Colombia well before the Banco de la República was established in 1923 to consolidate the country's monetary framework. ABNC handled the printing for much of Colombian private banking at this period, supplying engraved notes that carried more visual authority than the issuing institutions sometimes warranted.
The denomination — "Peso Oro Acuñado," meaning minted gold peso — is the telling detail. The qualifier distinguished these notes from debased or depreciated peso variants and was a direct response to chronic monetary instability following the Thousand Days War and the inflationary paper emissions that scarred public confidence in Colombian currency for decades afterward.