Colombia · Banco de la República · ABNC
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
Back
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.
Population
A PMG or PCGS census for serial 52170492 has not been independently verified. The note is shown in a sleeve, circulated, unslabbed.
Sources
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Bank Note Museum — Colombia P-380, 1 peso oro (1929–1954)
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380g: 01.01.1954; Santander, an allegorical figure, and Bolívar on the face; Liberty on the back; ABNC.
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Numista — Colombia 1 peso oro, N# 207727
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01.01.1954: P# 380g / TBB B922k; Hernández 38; Series HH; signatures LAA₂ and EAR; 140 × 70 mm; 45% frequency within the type.
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RealBanknotes — Colombia P-380g, 1 peso oro of 1954
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1.1.1954; ABNC; Series HH; Santander and Bolívar on the face, Liberty on the back.
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Pedro Pablo Hernández — Coins and Banknotes of Colombia (Numista L100183)
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8th ed. 2023 (Numista L100183). Numista cites Hernández 38 for 1 January 1954; that H# is not replaced by a 2023 Cód.
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Banrepcultural Encyclopedia — Paper money in Colombia
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Free banking, Regeneración, Banco Nacional, the 1905 Banco Central, the Kemmerer Mission, and the 1931 end of convertibility.
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Banrepcultural Encyclopedia — Financing independence
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Records the 1813 Cartagena 1-real signed by Gutiérrez de Piñeres. Hernández (8th ed., 2023) lists a 2-reales of 1812 printed at Mompós first.
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Banco de la República — History of the Bank
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Law 25 of 1923, mixed capital, monopoly of issue, and the early opening on 23 July; the museum booklet details the weekend overstamp of Medellín certificates.
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Banco de la República — 1973 reform
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Law 7 and Decree 2617: the state acquired nearly all private shares.
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Banco de la República — 60 years of the Imprenta de Billetes
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23 October 1959; first job: the blue 1-peso printed in Bogotá. The 5-peso of 1961–1981 carries the walls of Cartagena.
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Banco de la República — Banknote and coin production and circulation
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Official tables: annual banknote production by denomination (1960–2022), Imprenta deliveries to Tesorería (2010–2022), and coin production. A year-and-face-value total is not the printage of one Pick type, date, or variety.
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Banco de la República — Background, evolution, and structure (Meisel et al.)
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The 1886 fiat standard, Law 70 of 1894, Reyes’s Banco Central, the Kemmerer Mission, and the 1923 opening.
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Adolfo Meisel Roca — Background to the Banco de la República, 1904–1922
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Postwar stabilization, projects for a bank of issue, and the setting in which Reyes created the Banco Central.
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Historical evolution of the Banco de la República (SciELO; citing Hernández, 2001)
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The 1905 Banco Central as a bank of issue; in 1909 its privilege was suspended and it became a private bank.
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HiSTOReLo — Núñez, Caro, and the Banco Nacional (1886–1903)
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Decree 104 and Law 87 of 1886 (fiat monetary unit); Law 70 of 1894 and closure in 1896.
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Astrid Romero — La Regeneración and the Banco Nacional (1991)
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Established in 1881; forced tender from 1886; final liquidation in 1896.
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Banco de Bogotá — Our Bank
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Founded 15 November 1870; the country’s first commercial bank.
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Portafolio — The Banco de Bogotá was born with the right to issue notes
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15 November 1870; statutes: bearer notes in proportion to metal in the till.
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Banrepcultural Encyclopedia — Money issue
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Forced tender, the Thousand Days’ War, the 1909 Conversion Board, and Banco Nacional paper still circulating in the 1910s.
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El Espectador — Twenty-five years after the “robo del siglo” (2019)
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Valledupar, 16–17 October 1994; some 24.072 billion pesos; exchange and redesign of the 2,000, 5,000, and 10,000 in 1995–1996.
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Banco de la República — Press release: new banknote family (25 September 2015)
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The 2016 family (2,000 to 100,000): biodiversity, culture, and the homage to Gabriel García Márquez.
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Banrepcultural — The new Colombian banknote family
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Theme of each denomination: landscapes, indigenous cultures, and figures of culture, science, and politics.
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Banrepcultural — Casa de Moneda Museum
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1996 permanent exhibition: 1923 provisionals, 1932 pesos plata, wartime cut ½-peso notes, and the Imprenta’s first note.
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Bank Note Museum — Colombia, Banco de la República
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Pick index: 1923 provisionals, pesos oro, and the 1959 series (P-404).