Colombia · Banco de la República · Radar serial
1,000 pesos note, 2009
1,000 pesos · 2009
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán 1,000 pesos, Pick 456l: 18 August 2009 and radar serial 78400487, twice on the face, unslabbed.
Catalog facts
- Pick reference
- P# 456l / TBB B986l
- Serial number
- 78400487
- Signatures
- José Darío Uribe Escobar (gerente general) and Gerardo Hernández Correa (gerente ejecutivo)
- Condition
- Unslabbed · apparently uncirculated
- Printage
- Imprenta de Billetes, Banco de la República, Bogotá. Date printed on the face, under the signatures: 18 August 2009. Published size 130 × 65 mm; eight digits, no series letter; both serials on the face. González White 2019 numbers the date BG# 439-r/12 (p. 112) and publishes no emisión figure. The Bank Note Museum lists 18.08.2009 as Pick 456l. Numista groups the reduced format under N# 205282 and assigns the JDUE / GHC pair to that date, the same pair as 2008, before José Tolosa. Banknote News calls B986l the Uribe / Hernández pair that 23 November 2010 (B986m) succeeds. BanRep’s 2009 production of 1,000-peso notes is 209.2 million pieces: that is every note of that face value that year, not the printage of this date or this serial. No printage is published here.
Face
Back
The note
The Jorge Eliécer Gaitán one-thousand in the reduced 130 × 65 mm format is Pick 456 (2005–2016) / TBB B986, printed by the Imprenta de Billetes. González White numbers the reduced dates BG# 439-r; this piece carries “18 DE AGOSTO DE 2009,” BG# 439-r/12 (p. 112), which the Bank Note Museum marks 456l. The signatures are those of José Darío Uribe Escobar, general manager, and Gerardo Hernández Correa, executive manager: the pair Numista assigns to the 2008 dates and to 18.08.2009, before the change to José Tolosa on 23 November 2010 (Pick 456m / TBB B986m). Serial 78400487 appears twice on the face, in black, at upper right and lower left; eight digits, no prefix. It is not a low serial (1–100). It is a radar: 78400487 reads the same forwards and backwards. It is not binary, solid, a ladder, or a repeater, and it carries no replacement marker (asterisk, star, R, or diamond). The square at left is the tactile mark, not a replacement diamond. The face, in orange and ochre, shows Gaitán at right — named under the portrait — and, at centre, the crowd as seen from Medellín’s Hotel Nutibara; at left, the scales registration device and the 1000. The back shows him waving his hat, with the quotations “Yo no soy un hombre, soy un pueblo.” and “El pueblo es superior a sus dirigentes.”, the manuscript signature, the Liberty seal, and the 1000. The imprint reads “IMPRENTA DE BILLETES – BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA.” It should not be confused with the Galán one-thousand pesos oro (Pick 421), the large 140 × 70 mm format (Pick 450), the 18 August 2008 maculature (serial 23085962), 23 November 2010 (radar serial 42222224), 10 June 2011 (Pick 456n), or the 19 August 2009 two-thousand (radar serial 70200207). González White and the Bank Note Museum already listed 18 August 2009; 78400487 is the example in this collection. This record gathers both sides of the same unslabbed note.
The bank
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (1903–1948) has occupied the Banco de la República one-thousand since the first catalogued date, 7 August 2001, put into circulation in 2002 at 140 × 70 mm. In 2005–2006 the bank cut the format to 130 × 65 mm, renewed the watermark — Gaitán’s portrait — and kept printing at the Imprenta de Billetes. The face takes the crowd from a balcony of the Hotel Nutibara; González White places the portrait drawing on a photograph by Sady González taken from that balcony. The back is the candidate’s greeting of 23 September 1945. The reduced type circulated from 17 November 2006. This date, 18 August 2009, still carries José Darío Uribe and Gerardo Hernández. José Tolosa becomes executive manager on the next date of this type, 23 November 2010. González White notes that no replacements are recorded.
Scarcity and printage
González White 2019 (BG# 439-r/12, p. 112) publishes no emisión figure for 18 August 2009. The Bank Note Museum describes Pick 456 as the 2005–2016 130 × 65 mm type and marks 456l for that date. Numista groups the design under N# 205282. BanRep’s annual production table assigns 209.2 million pieces to every 1,000-peso note of 2009. That total is not the printage of this date, signature pair, or serial. An eight-digit radar is a collector pattern; this record does not invent a population for that pattern.
Population
A PMG or PCGS census for serial 78400487 has not been independently verified. The note is shown unslabbed. The photographs are not enough to assign a numeric grade.
Sources
- Bank Note Museum — Colombia P-456, 1,000 pesos (2005–2016) (opens in a new tab)
Reduced type, Imprenta de Billetes; Gaitán on face and back. This piece is 18.08.2009 (456l). The catalogue marks 456k as 28.08.2008 and 456m as 23.11.2010.
- Numista — Colombia 1,000 pesos, small size, N# 205282 (opens in a new tab)
The reduced format is N# 205282. Records in this collection assign the JDUE / GHC pair to 18.08.2009, the same pair as 27.08.2008 and 28.08.2008. Price columns and a Hernández Cód. for this date are not published here.
- Banknote News — Colombia, new 23.11.2010 date and signatures (B986m) (opens in a new tab)
Owen Linzmayer, 28 October 2011: 23 November 2010 succeeds B986l and changes the signatures from Uribe / Hernández to Uribe / Tolosa. It does not name this serial.
- Banco de la República — Banknote and coin production and circulation (opens in a new tab)
2009 production of 1,000-peso notes: 209.2 million pieces. That is the denomination total that year, not one Pick date or serial.
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