Colombia new 100,000-peso note (B998a) confirmed

According to a press release dated 31 March 2016, the Banco de La República de Colombia has introduced a new 100,000-peso note.

B998 (P463): 100,000 pesos (US$29)

Green. Front: Spanish text; denomination in dark green-to-light green OVI; BRC as registration device; Barranquero bird (Momotus momota aequatorialis) as registration device; Sietecueros blossom (Tibouchina lepidota) in green-to-blue SPARK Orbit; El Bachiller Cleofás Pérez y Hefestos (pseudonym used by Lleras during his time as journalist); Carlos Lleras Restrepo. Back: Spanish text; wax palms (Ceroxylon quindiuense), the national tree, in Valle de Cocora, Quindío; Barranquero bird; Luis Vidales’s poem about wax palm; Liberty head bank seal. Solid security thread and yellow-to-green windowed security thread with demetalized BRC and bird. Watermark: Carlos Lleras Restrepo and electrotype 100. Printer: IMPRENTA DE BILLETES — BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA. 153 x 66 mm. Paper.

a. 8 DE AGOSTO DE 2014.
Sig. 22: Uribe/Tolosa. Prefix AA.
Intro: 31.03.2016.

Courtesy of Guillermo Granados, Alexander Brill, Noel Jose Cuenca, George Elmbridge, Camilo Uribe.

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