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100 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la Unión |
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| Year | 1880 |
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| Reference(s) | P#264A |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in orange, the reverse is composed of an elaborate lathe-work guilloche design with four large '100' numerals at each corner and centre panels incorporating floral rosette motifs. The bank name 'EL BANCO DE LA UNION' appears in a central cartouche framed by symmetric scrollwork. The printer's imprint 'AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK' is present at the bottom centre. |
| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA UNION 100 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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Banco de la Unión was a short-lived Colombian commercial bank, chartered in 1875 and gone before the end of the decade that followed — casualties of the chronic instability that plagued private banking in the Regeneration period. Notes of this denomination from this issuer had an extremely limited window of legitimate circulation, and ABNC's involvement tells you more about prestige signaling than distribution volume: Colombian banks of this era routinely commissioned New York-engraved stock to project solvency they did not always possess.
P#264A is among the rarer surviving examples of provincial Colombian private issue from this period. The 100 Peso face value placed it well above everyday commerce.