10000 — Ten Thousand Pesos
The artwork
Front: Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda in red-brown, her name and dates printed small beside the shoulder, with a second, full-length figure of her standing in coat and skirt at the centre — an unusual double treatment. Left of her, a gold-brown oval bearing a tree frog and the word RANA ARBORÍCOLA, a shifting "10", and a Victoria amazonica bloom. "BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA / COLOMBIA" and the two signatures sit lower left, with raised tactile bars in the corner.
Back: The Amazon seen from above: a great looping meander of pale river cutting through ochre and green forest, captioned AMAZONAS Y LA GENTE DE RÍO. An anaconda coils along the lower left, a man poles a dugout canoe across the water, and a Victoria regia lily opens at the right. Above, a passage of Gutiérrez de Pineda's writing in small type, beside the bank's seal with the head of Liberty. A green windowed thread runs vertically through the design., of Colombian notes.replacing the older Policarpa Salavarrieta note.
In circulation
Part of the family of notes Banco de la República introduced from 2015–16, this 10,000 replaced the long-running Policarpa Salavarrieta design. It remains current, reprinted with updated dates and signatures — this one dated 27 July 2021 — and circulates alongside the 2,000, 5,000, 20,000, 50,000 and 100,000 of the same series.
Details
- CurrencyPeso
- DenominationTen Thousand Pesos
- IssuerBanco de la República, Colombia
- Series2016 series; this printing dated 27 de julio de 2021
- PrinterImprenta de Billetes — Banco de la República
- SignatureGerente General (L. Villar) and Gerente Ejecutiva
- SecurityGreen windowed security thread, colour-shifting tree frog patch with "10", raised tactile marks for the blind
- Dimensions138 × 66 mm