Colombia-Numismatics · Independence
1 peso coin, 1826
1 peso · Bogotá JF · 1826
An 1826 gold peso struck at Bogotá. The obverse carries Liberty and the date; the reverse, the arms of Gran Colombia and the initials J · F.
Catalog facts
- Reference
- KM# 84 · Restrepo 160.3 · Fr#73 · Hernández 808 · Numista N#48297
- Year
- 1826
- Metal
- Gold .875 (type specification)
- Mint
- Bogotá
- Condition
- Unslabbed; no grade assigned. 1826, BOGOTA, 1 · P, and J · F are readable. The bust is worn and the field shows contact marks. The 6 does not show an underlying numeral here. Photographs do not authenticate the disc (private collection)
Obverse
Reverse
The piece
In 1826 the Bogotá mint struck this gold peso of the Republic of Colombia. The obverse carries Liberty’s bust facing left, with a headband, the legend REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA — unaccented, as engraved — and the date 1826 under the profile. The law of 14 March 1825 ordered that bust in Roman dress and the word libertad on the headband; the letters on the band cannot be read with certainty in this photograph. The reverse shows the arms fixed on 4 October 1821: fasces, a crossed bow and arrows, and two cornucopias. Around them one reads BOGOTA, the value 1 · P, a rosette, and the initials J · F. That is type KM# 84, Friedberg 73. Hernández, in the 8th edition of 2023, gathers the 1825 and 1826 Bogotá issues with assayer JF as Cód. 808; Numista groups the type (N#48297) under Cód. 808–810. Lot descriptions of the 1826 JF cite Restrepo 160.3. Numista also notes an 1826/5 overdate for that assayer. This photograph reads 1826 and does not show a numeral under the 6; the record does not assign that die subtype. The same year exists with JR and with PJ; the initials on this reverse read J · F. Gold .875, 1.69 g, and 15 mm are Numista’s figures for the type. CoinVarieties gives the same weight, the same fineness, and Friedberg 73, and leaves the mintage unstated. The Bank’s Numismatic Collection piece of 1826 (NMO3974) measures 15 mm and 1.7 g; it is not this disc. This specimen was not weighed or measured. Coin alignment is the type’s orientation on Numista; these photographs, side by side, do not fix the axis. BanRep’s coin tables begin in 1987 and do not give an 1826 mintage. Bogotá was, according to the Bank, the only mint that struck this gold peso from 1825 through 1836. One gold peso equalled half an escudo; the silver peso, eight reales. Unslabbed; the photographs do not authenticate the metal. It is not the 1821 silver 8 reales BA–JF, nor the colonial Popayán escudo.
Scarcity
Numista covers type KM# 84 (N#48297), struck from 1825 to 1836, and lists 1826 JF alongside JR and PJ. It notes an 1826/5 overdate on the JF; this photograph does not establish it. CoinVarieties leaves the 1826 JF mintage unstated. BanRep’s coin tables begin in 1987. This record publishes neither a slab census nor hammers.
Sources
- Numista — 1 peso, Republic of Colombia (N#48297) (opens in a new tab)
KM# 84 and Hernández 808–810. Type gold .875, 1.69 g, and 15 mm; milled; coin alignment. Dates 1825–1836, with 1826 JF, JR, and PJ, and a note that an 1826/5 overdate exists on the JF. Value columns and a mintage are not cited here.
- CoinVarieties — Bogotá gold peso, 1826 JF (opens in a new tab)
Fr-73 and KM-84; 1.69 g and 0.875 gold. It leaves the mintage unstated. The lot it illustrates is another specimen; prices are not published.
- Banco de la República Numismatic Collection — one-peso coin, 1826 (NMO3974) (opens in a new tab)
Another 1826 specimen, gold, Bogotá mint, 15 mm and 1.7 g. It summarizes the law of 14 March 1825 — the sixteenth of an onza, called colombiano de oro — and the arms of the law of 4 October 1821. It is not this disc.
- Pedro Pablo Hernández — Coins and Banknotes of Colombia, 8th ed. 2023 (Numista L100183) (opens in a new tab)
Cód. 808: 1 peso of the Republic of Colombia, 1825 and 1826, Bogotá, assayer J.F., obverse República de Colombia and a Liberty bust, fineness 0.875. Price columns and plates are not published. The weight on that row is not transcribed: the OCR of this edition cannot be read with certainty.
- Heritage / NumisBids — Bogotá gold peso, 1826 JF (opens in a new tab)
A type comparable: 1826 BOGOTA-JF, KM# 84, Restrepo 160.3. Not this specimen, and prices are not published.
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