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| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1994-1995 |
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| Value | 1000 Pesos (1000 COP) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA MIL PESOS 1000 SIMON BOLIVAR GERENTE GENERAL GERENTE EJECUTIVO SANTA FE DE BOGOTA, 2 DE OCTUBRE DE 1995 COLOMBIA |
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| Protection description | Portrait of Simón Bolívar, facing right |
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| Comments |
Colombia's central bank printing facility — the Imprenta de Billetes — was established in Bogotá in the 1950s, and by the 1990s was handling virtually the entire domestic currency output, a degree of self-sufficiency unusual among Latin American nations of comparable size. This note belongs to a transitional period: the city was officially renamed Santa Fe de Bogotá under the 1991 constitution, and the printer's imprint reflects that short-lived designation, used only until 2000 when the name reverted.
The watermark-only security suite is notably sparse for a four-figure denomination by mid-1990s standards, when security thread and color-shifting ink were already common among peer issuers.