Colombia · Banco de la República · TDLR specimen
2,000 pesos oro · 1983
A two-thousand-peso oro specimen, Pick 430as: slabbed PCGS 64 Very Choice New. Date 24 July 1983, zero serials and SPECIMEN Nº 030. This record gathers the face and back of the same holder.
Catalog facts
- Pick reference
- P# 430as
- Serial number
- 00000000 · SPECIMEN Nº 030
- Signatures
- Hugo Palacios Mejía (gerente) and Francisco José Ortega (secretario)
- Condition
- PCGS 64 Very Choice New · Hole Punch Cancelled
- Printage
- Thomas De La Rue & Co., London. Specimen of the 24 July 1983 date; published size 140 × 70 mm. The Bank Note Museum places Pick 430 in 1983–1986 (TDLR) and sends later dates to the Imprenta de Billetes (Pick 433 and 433A). No printage is published here.
Face
Back
The note
The Banco de la República ordered the first dates of this two-thousand-peso oro from Thomas De La Rue of London. The Bank Note Museum numbers Pick 430 in 1983–1986 and distinguishes it from later Imprenta de Billetes issues (Pick 433 and 433A). This piece is a specimen of the first date: 24 July 1983. The PCGS holder catalogs it as SCWPM# 430as; Numista records the 1983 specimen as P# 430s / TBB B971as. The face, in brown and orange, carries Simón Bolívar’s portrait at left with a smaller scene beside it, and at center the promise to pay the bearer two thousand gold pesos. The printed date is “BOGOTÁ D.E., 24 DE JULIO DE 1983.” The serials are zeros (00000000); in red are “SPECIMEN Nº 030,” a diagonal SPECIMEN, and De La Rue ovals reading “SPECIMEN / NO VALUE.” Two cancellation punches cut the paper. The signatures are those of Hugo Palacios Mejía (gerente) and Francisco José Ortega (secretario), the pair Numista assigns to that date (HPM, FJO₁). The back reproduces Francisco Antonio Cano’s “Paso del Páramo de Pisba,” with the bank seal and the figures 2000. PCGS certificate 59068295 grades it 64 Very Choice New, with the comments “Hole Punch Cancelled” and “Minor Mounting Remnants on Back.” It should not be confused with the 1985–1986 dates of the same design or with the Bogotá printings of Pick 433. This record gathers both sides of the same holder.
Scarcity and printage
Numista groups circulating notes and specimens of the design under N# 236486, with a rarity index of 32, and marks the 1983 specimen’s frequency at 0% among owners of the type. The Bank Note Museum describes 430a as the 24.07.1983 date, printed by Thomas De La Rue. This record does not invent a specimen printage.
Population
The note is slabbed by PCGS Currency as 64 Very Choice New, certification 59068295, with the comments Hole Punch Cancelled and Minor Mounting Remnants on Back. A population census for that holder number has not been independently verified.
Sources
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Bank Note Museum — Colombia P-430, 2,000 pesos oro (1983–1986)
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430a: 24.07.1983; Bolívar on the face, Paso del Páramo de Pisba (F. A. Cano) on the back; printer Thomas De La Rue, London.
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Numista — Colombia 2,000 pesos oro, N# 236486
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24.07.1983 specimen: P# 430s / TBB B971as; signatures HPM and FJO₁; 140 × 70 mm; 0% frequency within the type.
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Banrepcultural Encyclopedia — Paper money in Colombia
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Free banking, Regeneración, Banco Nacional, 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 Kemmerer Mission, the 1923 opening, and the shift from free banking to a central bank.
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Pedro Pablo Hernández — Coins and Banknotes of Colombia (Numista L100183)
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A standard catalog of Banco de la República issues and of the ABNC, TDLR, and IBB printers.
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Astrid Romero — La Regeneración and the Banco Nacional (1991)
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Established in 1881; final liquidation in 1896.
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Banrepcultural Encyclopedia — Money issue
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Forced tender, the Thousand Days’ War, and the 1909 Conversion Board (100 paper pesos = 1 gold peso).
- Bank Note Museum — Colombia (states, Republic, and Banco de la República) (opens in a new tab)
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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).