Colombia · Banco de la República · Replacement
10 pesos oro · replacement · 1976
A replacement ten-peso oro dated 20 July 1976: Pick 407f / TBB B950kr. Serial 00142533. The asterisk between GERENTE and SECRETARIO identifies the variety. This record gathers the face and back of the same unslabbed note.
Catalog facts
- Pick reference
- P# 407f · TBB B950kr
- Serial number
- 00142533
- Signatures
- Germán Botero de los Ríos (gerente) and Antonio José Gutiérrez (secretario)
- Condition
- Unslabbed (private collection)
- Printage
- Imprenta de Billetes, Bogotá. Banco de la República circulation issue; date on the note 20 July 1976. The Bank Note Museum groups type 407f under 20.07.1974, 01.01.1975, 20.07.1976, and 01.01.1978, without a security thread. Published size: 140 × 70 mm. This piece is the replacement variety (TBB B950kr; Hernández 199/201). No official printage is published here.
Face
Back
The note
The Banco de la República ordered this ten-peso oro of the Pick 407 family (1963–1980) from its own Imprenta de Billetes, opened in Bogotá on 23 October 1959. The face, lilac and slate blue on a green and multicolour underprint, carries Antonio Nariño’s portrait at left — named under the oval — and an Andean condor on a rock at right. At center is the promise to pay the bearer ten gold pesos. The serials are in red: 00142533, once at mid-left and once at upper right. The printed date is “JULIO 20 DE 1976” over “BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.” The signatures are those of Germán Botero de los Ríos (gerente) and Antonio José Gutiérrez (secretario), the pair Numista assigns to this date (GBR"₂, AJG). The replacement diagnostic is not in the serial: it is the small six-pointed black asterisk between the titles GERENTE and SECRETARIO. Colombian catalogs describe the 20 July 1976 variety that way. Pick numbers the ordinary type as 407f; replacements of that date are listed by The Banknote Book (B950kr) and Hernández (199/201). The back shows the pre-Columbian statues of the San Agustín Archaeological Park, the bank’s Liberty seal, and the figures 10. Type 407f, per the Bank Note Museum, has no security thread. This collection piece is shown in a sleeve, unslabbed. It should not be confused with the ordinary issue of the same date (TBB B950k; Hernández 198/200), which does not carry the asterisk between the titles.
Scarcity and printage
The 20 July 1976 replacement is a recognized variety and substantially scarcer than the ordinary issue of that date. Numista estimates the replacement at about 0.2% of recorded examples of Pick 407; that figure is a catalog-population estimate, not an official printage. Pick does not list replacements separately. This record does not invent a printage.
Population
A PMG or PCGS census for serial 00142533 has not been independently verified. The note is shown in a sleeve, unslabbed.
Sources
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Numista — Colombia 10 pesos oro, N# 203973
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20.07.1976 replacement: TBB B950kr; Hernández 199/201; asterisk on the face, between the titles; 0.2% frequency. Signatures GBR"₂ and AJG. Printer: Imprenta de Billetes, Bogotá. 140 × 70 mm.
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Bank Note Museum — Colombia P-407, 10 pesos oro (1963–1980)
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407f: 20.07.1974, 01.01.1975, 20.07.1976, and 01.01.1978, without a security thread; Nariño and condor on the face, San Agustín on the back.
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Banknote World — Colombia 10 pesos oro 1974, P-407f.1
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Same 407f letter: Imprenta de Billetes, Bogotá; 140 × 70 mm; no thread; Germán Botero de los Ríos and Antonio José Gutiérrez.
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Pedro Pablo Hernández — Coins and Banknotes of Colombia (Numista L100183)
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A standard catalog; Numista cites Hernández 199 and 201 for the 20 July 1976 replacement.
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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.
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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.
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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 1-peso printed in Bogotá.
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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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Bank Note Museum — Colombia, Banco de la República
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Pick index: 1923 provisionals, pesos oro, and the 1959 series (P-404).