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1 peso oro note, 1954

1 peso oro · Banco de la República · 1954

A circulating one-peso oro, Pick 380g: Series HH, eight-digit serial 52170492, 1 January 1954. This record gathers the face and back of the same unslabbed note.

Catalog facts

Pick reference: P# 380g · TBB B922k
Serial number: HH 52170492
Signatures: Luis Ángel Arango (gerente) and Eduardo Arias Robledo (secretario)
Condition: Circulated, unslabbed (private collection)
Printage: American Bank Note Company, New York. Banco de la República circulation issue; date on the note 1 January 1954. Published size: 140 × 70 mm. Series HH, eight-digit serial. González White 2019 numbers this date BG# 044 (p. 36): emisión 50,000,000, serials 30,000,001–80,000,000. The Bank Note Museum numbers type 380g on that date. Numista cites Hernández 38. Serial 52170492 falls in that range. BanRep’s annual banknote production tables begin in 1960; there is no denomination total for 1954.

Face of the 1 peso oro, Pick 380g: Santander, Bolívar, Series HH, serial 52170492, and the date 1 January 1954.

Back of the 1 peso oro, Pick 380g: Liberty in a blue medallion, the figures 1, and the American Bank Note Company imprint.

The note

The Banco de la República ordered this one-peso oro of the Pick 380 family (1929–1954) from the American Bank Note Company in New York. The face, blue on an orange and green multicolour underprint, carries at left the portrait of Francisco de Paula Santander and a standing allegorical figure, at center the figure 1 with the legend “UN PESO ORO,” and at right the bust of Simón Bolívar, named “BOLIVAR” under the oval. The serials are in red: 52170492, once at upper right and once at lower left. The legend “SERIE HH” appears twice in black, flanking the central 1. The printed date is “BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA. / 1º DE ENERO DE 1954.” The signatures are those of Luis Ángel Arango (gerente) and Eduardo Arias Robledo (secretario), the pair Numista assigns to 1954 (LAA₂, EAR). The blue back shows Liberty’s head in a medallion reading “BANCO DE LA REPUBLICA • BOGOTÁ COLOMBIA,” the figures 1 at each flank, and the imprint “AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY.” Type 380g, per the Bank Note Museum, covers that date only; the 1950 HH notes (Pick 380f) are another issue, in seven- or eight-digit serials. It is not the 1953 Boyacá commemorative 1-peso (Waterlow) or the Imprenta de Billetes blue 1-peso (Pick 404). This collection piece is shown in a sleeve, circulated, unslabbed.

Scarcity and printage

González White 2019 (BG# 044, p. 36) publishes 50,000,000 notes for 1 January 1954, eight-digit Series HH, serials 30,000,001–80,000,000. The Bank Note Museum describes Pick 380g as that date of the ABNC 1 peso oro: Santander and Bolívar on the face, Liberty on the back. Numista groups the 1929–1954 design under N# 207727 and marks the 01.01.1954 Series HH date’s frequency at 45% among owners of the type. It is neither a proof nor a specimen. This record does not replace that BG# emisión with a BanRep denomination-year total.