50 Pesos

Banco Occidental was one of several regional Colombian banks still operating under the country's decentralized banking regime before the 1923 Kemmerer Mission pushed through the reforms that established the Banco de la República and effectively ended private note issue. This 50 Pesos note, printed by American Bank Note Company in New York, dates from the final years of that system — by 1923, notes like this were being called in and the issuing banks wound down.

Colombian private bank issues of this period are frequently encountered with heavy cancellation punches, applied during redemption. Uncancelled survivors of the Occidental series are considerably harder to find.