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Colombian peso: research record

Evidence coverage: 1819–1923. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Currency continuity

Colombian peso

COP · Research draft

Account-unit continuity supported by the revision 23 source review; a naming, issuer or scale change does not supply a distinct ancestor.

One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Current currency in the inherited endpoint register.
Dated observations: 1819–1923; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Spanish real / peso de a ochoaccount unit branching · qualified · 1819–1821
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Children / successors

Panamanian balboacurrency replacement · 1904
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Siblings

Names and unit scales 2 records

These stages belong to this profile, not separate branches.

Colombian peso1923–1923 · source record FTM000070
Colombian realUndated–Undated · source record FTM000069
Unit and issue records 2 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Colombian Peso — endpoint research dossierFTM000744 · C570
Earlier accounting observation · C1200

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Earlier unit continuity

The 1821 monetary legislation retained the Spanish eight-real peso system in independent Colombia.

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Modern account-unit review

Panama's balboa system established in1904succeeded the locally circulating Colombian silver-peso monetary system. Original historical narrative plainly establishes local succession. Existing broad Colombian peso profile may retain silver/paper distinctions as qualifications; does not imply mainland depreciated paper pesos converted on identical terms. No universal contractual ratio asserted.

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Monetary history 1 events

Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.

1923: provisional central-bank notesIssuer banknote transition

The bank's centenary history describes provisional 1923 notes made from overprinted gold-deposit certificates, followed by regular American Bank Note Company issues in 1924.

C570
Evidence & research notes 5 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C570

The bank's centenary history describes provisional 1923 notes made from overprinted gold-deposit certificates, followed by regular American Bank Note Company issues in 1924.

Banco de la República, Colombia · Banco de la República: 100 años Citation S304 · Open source ↗

PDF p.45, La tradición industrial del Banco de la República

Inference C1178

Colombian peso/real reckoning continued the inherited Spanish-American monetary system, with the 1821 Congress ordering return to its eight-real silver peso. This is a qualified regional branch; local wartime stages and incomplete implementation remain open.

Banco de la República, museum exhibition · Financiación de la independencia Citation S584 · Open source ↗

¿Ideología o Economía? paragraph on common colonial currency; Moneda de plata, República de Colombia, 8 reales, Cundinamarca, 1821; paragraphs 24 and 60–62

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1179

Panama’s own monetary system succeeded Colombian currency in circulation at independence; the balboa was established in 1904.

Panamanian Legation / US Department of State · Aide-mémoire of 14 January 1935, FRUS document 889 Citation S473 · Open source ↗

First substantive historical paragraph; Monetary Agreement Articles I–II; printed pp. 911–912

Inference C1200

The 1821 monetary legislation retained the Spanish eight-real peso system in independent Colombia.

Banco de la República, museum exhibition · Financiación de la independencia Citation S584 · Open source ↗

¿Ideología o Economía? paragraph on common colonial currency; Moneda de plata, República de Colombia, 8 reales, Cundinamarca, 1821; paragraphs 24 and 60–62

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1651

Panama's balboa system established in 1904succeeded the locally circulating Colombian silver-peso monetary system.

Ernesto J. Castillero R. · El sistema Monetario de Panamá. Parte Histórica, Revista de Economía y Estadística6(4)(1944),219–239 Citation S803 · Open source ↗

Printed228–232

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full body inspected in public mirror; official journal PDF blocked by Anubis.

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