A 2001 50,000-peso note with serial 00000290, listed at COP 730,000

Pulzo (4 September 2026) reports a Colecciones El Dorado listing: a 50,000-peso note from the first family of that denomination, dated 23 July 2001 with serial 00000290, offered at COP 730,000 — more than fourteen times face. The figure is the seller’s asking price, not an auction result and not the value of an ordinary 50,000-peso note.

Isaacs, Urrutia, and a low serial

Pulzo places the piece in the issue that began to circulate in late 2000. On the face, the writer Jorge Isaacs and the signature of Miguel Urrutia Montoya, then general manager of the Banco de la República; on the back, Valle del Cauca and María. The type is the 140 × 70 mm paper family that the Bank Note Museum numbers Pick 455 (2001–2014). This note does not publish a printage for that date or this serial: a BanRep year total for the denomination is not the issue of one example.

Serial 00000290 — eight digits, with leading zeros — is low as an early counter, not a first-of-issue. It is not a radar or a solid. Pulzo notes that collector interest also depends on grade, authenticity, and whether a buyer appears; holding an old 50,000-peso note does not, by itself, mean COP 730,000.

More detail in Pulzo (opens in a new tab) and in the guide to fancy serial numbers.