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Today's note is:
Pick: 131 - PERU
Value: 50 Intis
Issued by: Banco Central de Reserva del Perú
Date: 1986 & 1987
Printer: Casa da Moeda do Brasil
There is a very similar note which is PICK: PERU P-130

I really like this note. The front features Policarpa Salavarrieta who was a Neogranadine (Colombia's name prior was New Granada) seamstress who spied for the Revolutionary Forces during the Spanish Reconquista of the Viceroyalty of New Granada. She was captured by Spanish Royalists and ultimately executed for high treason. The Day of the Colombian Woman is commemorated on the anniversary of her death. She is now considered a heroine of the independence of Colombia.

The note is:
Pick: 13 - COLOMBIA
Value: 2 Pesos Oro
Issued by: Banco de la República
Date: 1972-1977





The reverse features "The Muisca Raft". This golden statue contributed to the myth of "El Dorado" and their supposed lost city of gold. The Muisca where an advanced civilization from the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes, dating from 600 C.E. to 1600 C.E. However, "el dorado" was not a city, but rather a ruler, who adorned himself with gold and was called "el dorado" (a term coined later by the Spanish meaning "the golden one"). In 1636, under the leadership of Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, the Spanish began the conquest of Colombia, and in their quest to exploit its material riches, crafted this myth.

The Muisca Raft was discovered in Pasca, to the south of Lake Guatavita, but it is believed to depict the initiation ceremony of a new ruler. Perhaps the most impressive of Muisca tunjos, it is made of tumbaga, a metallic alloy that is more than eighty percent gold. This type of alloy, which consists of gold mixed with small portions of silver and copper, gives off a unique pinkish-yellow glow, a quality that the Muisca admired for its association with the sun deity.



Like the currency of other countries, the value of the Colombian Peso has dropped with notes now up to 100,000 Pesos.

Today's note is really nice uncirculated.

Pick: 70 - VENEZUELA
Value: 5 Bolívares
Issued by: Banco Central de Venezuela
Date: 21.09.1989
This note is a reissue of Pick 50 from 1968.

This was the last of the low value notes before hyperinflation and 1,000,000 bolivar notes.

Love the Columbian 2 Pesos & the background info about the Muisca Raft (& heroine portrayed). Great prize notes from the PMF contest @hfjacinto!

Thanks for sharing.

Yes, Guayana has some pretty notes too. Here's one I forgot to post: (I will follow your nifty formatting @hfjacinto)

Pick 36b(2) - GUYANA
Value: 100 Dollars
Issued by: Bank of Guyana
Date: ND (2005-2022)
This 2012 note has the Parrot + "100" watermark and the "Williams & Singh" signature. It is the 3rd version of the current Modified Plate Issue (6 versions).



The reverse features the historic/very iconic St. George's Cathedral, Georgetown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._G...C_Georgetown

Lovely pair!

Last of the notes

Pick: 90 -MACAU
Value: 10 Patacas
Issued by: Banco da China
Date: 16.10.1995

This note was the first issued by the Bank of China in preparation for the return to China in 1999. Prior notes were printed by Banco Nacional Ultramarino, the Portuguese Bank for the Colonial empire.
Unlike the other colonies, the currency of Macau was Patacas and Avos.




Macau or Macao is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a population of about 680,000 and an area of 32.9 km2 (12.7 sq mi), it is the most densely populated region in the world.

Formerly a Portuguese colony, and while many people assume that Macau was a territory of Portugal, the land actually leased as a trading post by the Ming dynasty in 1557. Portugal paid an annual rent and administered the territory under Chinese sovereignty until 1887. Portugal later gained perpetual colonial rights in the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking. The colony remained under Portuguese rule until 1999, when it was transferred to China. Macau is a special administrative region of China, which maintains separate governing and economic systems. The unique blend of Portuguese and Chinese architecture in the city's historic centre led to its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005.[13]

Originally a sparsely populated collection of coastal islands, Macau, often referred to as the "Las Vegas of the East", has become a major resort city and a top destination for gambling tourism, with a gambling industry seven times larger than that of Las Vegas. The city has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, US$43,770 in 2021. The territory is highly urbanised; two-thirds of the total land area is built on land reclaimed from the sea.