Colombia · Banco de la República · ABNC
1,000 pesos oro · Banco de la República · 1979
A circulating one-thousand-peso oro, Pick 421a: first date of the denomination, 1 April 1979, nine-digit serial 067682258. This record gathers the face and back of the same unslabbed note, in a sleeve.
Catalog facts
- Pick reference
- P# 421a · TBB B963a
- Serial number
- 067682258
- Signatures
- Rafael Gama Quijano (gerente) and Francisco José Ortega (secretario)
- Condition
- Unslabbed (private collection)
- Printage
- American Bank Note Company, New York. Banco de la República circulation issue; date on the note 1 April 1979. Published size: 140 × 70 mm. Nine digits, no series letter; González White 2019 notes that only eight were used and that ordinary numbers start with one or two zeros. He numbers this date BG# 411 (p. 105): emisión 70,000,000. Serial 067682258 falls in that range and does not carry the R prefix of replacement BG# 412. BanRep’s 1979 tables publish no 1,000-peso total (that column begins in 1988); the year’s 254.75 million covers 5-, 10-, and 20-peso notes. This record does not replace the BG# emisión with that denomination-year total.
Face
Back
The note
The Banco de la República ordered from the American Bank Note Company in New York the first one-thousand-peso oro in its history. González White 2019 places that novelty in 1979: the Comunero José Antonio Galán on the face and the Palacio de Nariño on the back. The Bank Note Museum numbers Pick 421 on the single date 01.04.1979; Numista, N# 237007 (P# 421a / TBB B963a; Hernández 408). The face, brown and green on a multicolour underprint, carries Galán’s portrait at right — named under the oval — and the watermark panel at left. At center is the promise to pay the bearer one thousand gold pesos. The serials are in black: 067682258, once at mid-left and once across the portrait. Nine digits, with a leading zero: the Colombian catalogue notes that ordinary numbers start with one or two zeros and that replacements carry R and three zeros. The printed date is “1° DE ABRIL DE 1979” under “COLOMBIA.” The signatures are those of Rafael Gama Quijano (gerente) and Francisco José Ortega (secretario), the pair Numista assigns to this date (RGQ, FJO). The back, grey and black on a pale ground, shows the Palacio de Nariño, the bank’s Liberty seal, and the imprint “AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY.” González White describes the nearly white paper, technical faults, and an early withdrawal; it should not be confused with Thomas De La Rue’s Bolívar 1,000 (Pick 424), with the later Gaitán type, or with the R replacement (Pick 421r / TBB B963az; Hernández 409; BG# 412). This collection piece is shown in a sleeve, unslabbed.
Scarcity and printage
González White 2019 (BG# 411, p. 105) publishes 70,000,000 notes for 1 April 1979, nine digits with no series letter, and marks the R replacement (BG# 412) ¿?. The Bank Note Museum describes Pick 421 as that date of the ABNC 1,000 pesos oro: Galán on the face, Palacio de Nariño on the back. Numista groups the design under N# 237007, rarity index 48, and marks the circulating note’s frequency at 94% among owners of the type; the replacement appears at 0%. 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 067682258 has not been independently verified. The note is shown in a sleeve, unslabbed.
Sources
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Bank Note Museum — Colombia P-421, 1,000 pesos oro (01.04.1979)
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421a: 01.04.1979; José Antonio Galán on the face, Palacio de Nariño on the back; ABNC.
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Numista — Colombia 1,000 pesos oro, N# 237007
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01.04.1979: P# 421a / TBB B963a; Hernández 408; signatures RGQ and FJO; 140 × 70 mm; 94% frequency within the type.
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Banknote World — Colombia 1,000 pesos oro 1979, P-421a
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01.04.1979; ABNC; 140 × 70 mm; BRC security thread; Galán and Palacio de Nariño.
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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 408 for the 1 April 1979 circulating note; 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).