Currency of Colombia 20000 Pesos banknote 2016 President Alfonso López Michelsen
Banco de la República (Colombia) - Central bank of the Republic of Colombia
Obverse: Former Colombian President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, standing with hat in hand, and close-up giving speech.
Images with color change and movement: a sugar-apple (Annona squamosa) - The fruit of the anón changes from green to blue; simultaneously, the intense green circle appears to move.
Text: “20 MIL PESOS” in the upper left corner.
Texts: “BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA” and “COLOMBIA.”
The signatures of the Governor of the Central Bank and its Deputy Executive Governor.
Undulating stripes on the sides of the face.
Common and scientific names of the anón, the fruit of Annona.
Five diagonal lines in the side edges.
The number twenty in Braille on the bottom center (slightly to the left).
Reverse: Displayed on the back is a standing farmer wearing hat, carrying sheaf of caña flecha (Gynerium sagittatum), an image of a traditional Colombian hat Sombrero Vueltiao (turned hat), a poem by Benjamín Puche Villadiego about the sombrero vueltiao. Image of the pre-hispanic channel system of the Zenú tribe at La Mojana, located at the bottom center. Pre-hispanic hydraulic system of the Zenú people. Artistic design inspired by Nicolás Lozano’s illustration, published in Carmen María Jaramillo (1987). “Así éramos los Zenúes”, Bogotá: Banco de la República. Fundación de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Nacionales.
The logo of Banco de la República.
The texts “20 MIL PESOS” and “VEINTE MIL PESOS.”
Texts: “SISTEMA HIDRÁULICO PREHISPÁNICO DE LOS ZENÚES” and “SOMBRERO VUELTIAO.”
Watermark: On the left side of the banknote President Alfonso López Michelsen’s face appears against the light, with a threedimensional effect and the number “20.”.
Printer: IMPRENTA DE BILLETES — BANCO DE LA REPUBLICA.
Size: Its measurements are 143 x 66 mm; it is printed on 100% cotton security paper.
Signature Escobar/Buitrago.
Prefix AA. 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2015. Introduction: 30.06.2016.