COLOMBIA BANKNOTE 50 PESOS 1958 P 393e-

SOLD

1958 COLOMBIA 50 PESOS BANKNOTE SPECIMEN

REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA

BANK OF THE REPUBLIC, BOGOTA COLOMBIA

1943 (1944-1958) ISSUE TYPE FIFTY GOLD PESOS (50 PESOS ORO) 1958 BANKNOTE SPECIMEN

PRINTED BY THE AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY

OBV: GREEN INK ON MULTICOLOR UNDERPRINT; LEFT, OVAL UNIFORMED PORTRAIT BUST OF ANTONIO NARIÑO.

STAMPED SPECIMEN IN RED ACROSS VALUE CENTER. PUNCHOLES AT SIGNATURES.

REV: ABOVE CENTER WITHIN CIRCLE, ALLEGORICAL BUST OF MARIANA (LIBERTAD) WEARING PHRYGIAN CAP WITH LAURELS LEFT.

KP # 393

ANTONIO NARIÑO (1765-1824) WAS AN ARISTOCRATIC COLOMBIAN BORN REVOLUTIONARY WHO WAS AN EARLY PROPONENT, AGITATOR AND LEADER AGAINST SPANISH RULE OF NEW GRANADA (COLOMBIA).

IN 1811 HE BECAME PRESIDENT OF ONE OF THE INDEPENDENT STATES THAT HAD BROKEN AWAY FROM SPAIN.

AS COMMANDER AND GENERAL OF REPUBLICAN FORCES, HE WON INITIAL VICTORIES AGAINST THE ROYALISTS, DRIVING OFF AN INVASION, UNTIL THE COLLAPSE OF HIS FORCES AND HIS SURRENDER. FROM 1814-1821 HE WAS INTERRED IN A ROYAL PRISON.

HE WAS MADE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE GREATER REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA BY BOLIVAR AND WAS RECOGNIZED AS A NATIONAL HERO OF COLOMBIA BEFORE HIS DEATH IN 1824.

THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN COLOMBIA WAS BUILT ON THE SPOT OF HIS BIRTHPLACE AND IS NAMED CASA DE NARIÑO.

143 MM x 74 MM

Price $US 200.

+Shipping and Handling

Please confirm stock. I have other distributors

Florida

Tamaño: 142x71mm.

Anverso: Efigie de Sucre. Fecha: 1 de enero de 1958, Serie CC.

 Firmas: Gerente : Ignacio Copete Lizarralde. Secretario: Jorge Cortes Boshell.

Reverso: Medallon de la Libertad.

Impresor:American Bank Note.
SOLD-VENDIDO