A pair of American Bank Note Company proofs: face S819p1, slabbed PMG 64 Choice Uncirculated EPQ; back S819p2, PMG 62 Uncirculated. Series C, serial 00000.
Catalog facts
- Pick reference
- P# S819p1 / S819p2
- Serial number
- C 00000
- Signatures
- Unsigned (printer’s proofs)
- Condition
- Face PMG 64 Choice Uncirculated EPQ · Back PMG 62 Uncirculated
- Printage
- American Bank Note Company, New York. Printer’s mount dated February 1883; Series C. No circulating printage is published.
Face
Back
The note
The Banco de Rio Hacha — today’s Riohacha, on the Guajira — left printed statutes in 1882, from the Imprenta de Padilla. The next year it ordered five-peso paper from the American Bank Note Company in New York. The Standard Catalog of World Paper Money — Specialized Issues numbers it S819p: black on a brown underprint, arms at left, Simón Bolívar at center, and at right a female allegory leaning on a wheel. The series is C. The mount of these proofs is dated “February 1883.” The face promises to pay at the office, on sight and to the bearer, five pesos in current money; the red serial is 00000 and three cancellation punches cut the lower margin. The sepia back is a scrollwork frame with a 5 at each flank and the imprint “AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK.” There are no signatures: these are plate proofs, not a note placed in circulation. This record gathers the collection’s two PMG holders — face and back, separately slabbed.
Scarcity and printage
RealBanknotes describes type S819p as an 1883 printer’s proof, not a till issue. A lot from the Eldorado collection, cited by PMG, was likewise an S819p proof. Circulating notes of this coastal bank are extremely rare; the market mostly sees New York plates, often mounted, punch-cancelled, and with zero serials. This record does not invent a printage.
Population
The two pieces in this record are slabbed by PMG: the face as 64 Choice Uncirculated EPQ (S819p1) and the back as 62 Uncirculated (S819p2). A population census for these holder numbers has not been independently verified.
Sources
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RealBanknotes — Colombia pS819p, 5 pesos of 1883
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ABNC proof: black on brown; arms, Bolívar, and a woman with a wheel; Series C.
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PMG — Banco de Rio Hacha S819p proof in the Eldorado collection
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Records the 1883 5-peso type as a slabbed proof.
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Academia Colombiana de Historia — Statutes of the Banco de Riohacha (1882)
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32 pages, Riohacha, Imprenta de Padilla: the bank existed the year before these plates.
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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: 10 million gold pesos of capital and the monopoly of issue.
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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)