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20 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1943-1963 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, New York, United States |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA REPUBLICA PAGARA AL PORTADOR SERIE SERIE VEINTE PESOS ORO BOGOTA COLOMBIA - date- GERENTE SECRETARIO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY (Translation: THE BANK OF THE REPUBLIC WILL PAY THE BEARER SERIES SERIES TWENTY GOLD PESOS BOGOTA COLOMBIA -date- MANAGER SECRETARY AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY) |
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| Variants | a. 20.07.1943 b. 20.07.1944 & 01.01.1945 c. 07.08.1947 d. 01.01.1950 & 10.01.1951 e. 02.01.1963 |
| Comments |
The Banco de la República's long-running 20 Pesos Oro series, printed by ABNCo over two decades, reflects a period of relative monetary stability in Colombia — unusual for mid-century Latin America. The twenty-year print window meant successive dates on essentially the same plate design, with only minor typographic revisions across the run.
ABNCo's New York intaglio work on Colombian issues from this period is consistently fine, and the 20 Pesos denomination was the workhorse of commercial transactions throughout the 1950s coffee boom.