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20 Pesos
| Issuer | Tesoro Nacional de Colombia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Peso (1907-1931) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a large intaglio vignette of a condor with outspread wings positioned at left, enclosed within an ornate guilloche border frame. Central text in stylised script reads VALE DEL TESORO and La República de Colombia, with the denomination VEINTE PESOS rendered in bold letterpress, below which a body of text details six percent per annum interest terms and amortisation conditions. Printed signatures of El Ministro del Tesoro and El Jefe de la Sección de Crédito Público appear at the foot, with SERIE A at right and the printer's imprint LIT. NACIONAL-BOGOTÁ at the base. |
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| Reverse lettering | El Vale del Tesoro se destina únicamente al pago de la deuda de Tesorería pendiente el 31 de diciembre de 1921 EL TESORERO GENERAL |
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The Tesoro Nacional — Colombia's national treasury, functioning as a quasi-central bank before the Banco de la República was established in 1923 — issued this note during a period of chronic monetary disorder. Colombia had suffered through civil war, the War of a Thousand Days ending only in 1902, and its paper money circulated at ruinous discounts against specie for years afterward. By 1921, the treasury was still managing a fragmented currency system that the new bank would eventually consolidate.
Litografía Nacional in Bogotá was a domestic printer, and the limitations of local lithographic production at the time are occasionally visible in surviving examples — registration inconsistencies and uneven ink density are known to occur across the series.