Colombia · Banco de la República · Binary radar serial
2,000 pesos · 2008
A two-thousand-peso note of the reduced Pick 457 family: date 20 August 2008 and binary radar serial 10000001, printed twice on the back. This record gathers the face and back of the same unslabbed note, in a sleeve.
Catalog facts
- Pick reference
- P# 457
- Serial number
- 10000001
- Signatures
- José Darío Uribe Escobar (gerente general) and Gerardo Hernández Correa (gerente ejecutivo)
- Condition
- Unslabbed · in a sleeve · apparently uncirculated
- Printage
- Imprenta de Billetes, Banco de la República, Bogotá. Date printed on the face: 20 August 2008. Published size 130 × 65 mm; eight digits, no series letter; both serials on the back. González White 2019 numbers the reduced type BG# 490 (pp. 121–123) and marks the August 2008 dates N.D. for emisión; the Bank Note Museum lists 29.08.2008 (457i) and 30.08.2008 (457j) as Pick 457’s 2008 dates, and 20.08.2009 as 457l. BanRep’s 2008 production of 2,000-peso notes is 280.4 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
After the 1994 Valledupar robbery the Banco de la República replaced, in 1995–1996, the 2,000, 5,000, and 10,000 peso notes. The two-thousand of that family carries Francisco de Paula Santander and, on the back, the portal of Bogotá’s Casa de Moneda. In 2005 the bank cut the format from 140 × 70 mm to 130 × 65 mm, added the name “SANTANDER” beside the portrait, and left both serials — eight digits, no series letter — on the back only, in different type, size, and colour. González White numbers that reduced type BG# 490; the Bank Note Museum, Pick 457 (2005–2014), printed by the Imprenta de Billetes. This piece carries the date “20 DE AGOSTO DE 2008.” The signatures are those of José Darío Uribe Escobar, general manager from January 2005, and Gerardo Hernández Correa, executive manager: the pair on the 2008 dates, before the change to José Tolosa. The back imprint reads “IMPRENTA DE BILLETES – BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA.” Serial 10000001 appears in black at left and in green at right: it is a palindrome (radar) and a binary — only zeros and ones. It is not a first-of-issue low serial (00000001); it is a collector pattern on an eight-digit number. It should not be confused with the Bolívar 2,000 pesos oro (Pick 430/433), the large 1996–2005 2,000 (Pick 445/451), or the 2,000 of the 2016 family. This record gathers both sides of the same unslabbed note, in a sleeve.
The bank
From 1993 Banco de la República notes dropped the legend “pesos oro.” On 16–17 October 1994 the “robo del siglo” emptied the Valledupar vault: some 24.072 billion pesos in 2,000, 5,000, and 10,000 notes, much of it still unissued. The bank published serial ranges, opened an exchange, and in 1995–1996 redesigned those three denominations. The Santander and Casa de Moneda two-thousand was born in that replacement. In November 2006 the bank put the reduced format into circulation (BG# 490 / Pick 457): new colouring, a different watermark, and serials on the back only. The 2016 family replaced it in ordinary circulation; this record documents a 2008 piece with a collector serial.
Scarcity and printage
González White 2019 (BG# 490, pp. 121–123) publishes no emisión figure for the August 2008 dates (N.D.). The Bank Note Museum describes Pick 457 as the 2005–2014 130 × 65 mm type. BanRep’s annual production table assigns 280.4 million pieces to every 2,000-peso note of 2008: that is not the printage of one date, signature pair, or serial. An eight-digit binary radar is a collector pattern; this record does not invent a population for that pattern.
Population
A PMG or PCGS census for serial 10000001 has not been independently verified. The note is shown in a sleeve, apparently uncirculated, unslabbed.
Sources
-
Bank Note Museum — Colombia P-457, 2,000 pesos (2005–2014)
(opens in a new tab)
Reduced type, Imprenta de Billetes; Santander on the face, Casa de Moneda on the back. 2008 dates listed: 29.08.2008 (457i) and 30.08.2008 (457j).
-
Banco de la República — Banknote and coin production and circulation
(opens in a new tab)
2008 production of 2,000-peso notes: 280.4 million pieces (the denomination total that year, not one Pick date).
-
Banrepcultural Encyclopedia — Paper money in Colombia
(opens in a new tab)
Free banking, Regeneración, Banco Nacional, the 1905 Banco Central, the Kemmerer Mission, and the 1931 end of convertibility.
-
Banrepcultural Encyclopedia — Financing independence
(opens in a new tab)
Records the 1813 Cartagena 1-real signed by Gutiérrez de Piñeres.
-
Banco de la República — History of the Bank
(opens in a new tab)
Law 25 of 1923, mixed capital, monopoly of issue, and the early opening on 23 July.
-
Banco de la República — 1973 reform
(opens in a new tab)
Law 7 and Decree 2617: the state acquired nearly all private shares.
-
Banco de la República — 60 years of the Imprenta de Billetes
(opens in a new tab)
23 October 1959; first job: the 1-peso printed in Bogotá.
-
Banco de la República — Background, evolution, and structure (Meisel et al.)
(opens in a new tab)
The 1886 fiat standard, Law 70 of 1894, Reyes’s Banco Central, the Kemmerer Mission, and the 1923 opening.
-
Adolfo Meisel Roca — Background to the Banco de la República, 1904–1922
(opens in a new tab)
Postwar stabilization, projects for a bank of issue, and the setting in which Reyes created the Banco Central.
-
Historical evolution of the Banco de la República (SciELO; citing Hernández, 2001)
(opens in a new tab)
The 1905 Banco Central as a bank of issue; in 1909 its privilege was suspended and it became a private bank.
-
HiSTOReLo — Núñez, Caro, and the Banco Nacional (1886–1903)
(opens in a new tab)
Decree 104 and Law 87 of 1886 (fiat monetary unit); Law 70 of 1894 and closure in 1896.
-
Pedro Pablo Hernández — Coins and Banknotes of Colombia (Numista L100183)
(opens in a new tab)
A standard catalog of Colombian notaphily: free banking, the Banco Nacional, and the Banco de la República.
-
Astrid Romero — La Regeneración and the Banco Nacional (1991)
(opens in a new tab)
Established in 1881; forced tender from 1886; final liquidation in 1896.
-
Banco de Bogotá — Our Bank
(opens in a new tab)
Founded 15 November 1870; the country’s first commercial bank.
-
Portafolio — The Banco de Bogotá was born with the right to issue notes
(opens in a new tab)
15 November 1870; statutes: bearer notes in proportion to metal in the till.
-
Banrepcultural Encyclopedia — Money issue
(opens in a new tab)
Forced tender, the Thousand Days’ War, the 1909 Conversion Board, and Banco Nacional paper still circulating in the 1910s.
-
El Espectador — Twenty-five years after the “robo del siglo” (2019)
(opens in a new tab)
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.
-
Banco de la República — Press release: new banknote family (25 September 2015)
(opens in a new tab)
The 2016 family (2,000 to 100,000): biodiversity, culture, and the homage to Gabriel García Márquez.
-
Banrepcultural — The new Colombian banknote family
(opens in a new tab)
Theme of each denomination: landscapes, indigenous cultures, and figures of culture, science, and politics.
- Bank Note Museum — Colombia (states, Republic, and Banco de la República) (opens in a new tab)
-
Bank Note Museum — Colombia, Banco de la República
(opens in a new tab)
Pick index: 1923 provisionals, pesos oro, and the 1959 series (P-404).