Obverse

Dark blue and dark purple print on pale blue and purple underprint; serial numbers black.
At centre, a hummingbird and a flower printed in holographic colour-shifting ink. Bust of writer Gabriel García Márquez at right.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
50 MIL
PESOS
BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA
COLOMBIA
CINCUENTA MIL
PESOS

COLIBRÍ PIQUICORTO
Ramphomicron dorsale

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA (1982)

Translation:
Bank of the Republic of Colombia
Fifty Thousand Pesos.
Short-billed hummingbird
Ramphomicron dorsale
Gabriel García Márquez
Nobel Prize of Literature (1982)

Reverse

Dark blue, magenta, and dark purple print on pale blue and purple underprint.
Scene of indigenous people at Ciudad Perdida, Sierra Nevada de Santa Maria at left.
At top-right, a quote by Gabriel García Márquez and bank coat of arms.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
50 MIL
PESOS
CINCUENTA MIL
PESOS

CIUDAD PERDIDA,
SIERRA NEVADA DE SANTA MARIA

BURGAO
Cittarium pica

LA SOLEDAD DE AMÉRICA LATINA
“UNA NUEVA Y ARRASADORA UTOPÍA DE LA VIDA, DONDE NADIE PUEDA DECIOIR POR OTROS HASTA LA FORMA DE MORIR, DONDE DE VERAS SEA CIERTO EL AMOR Y SEA POSIBLE LA FELICIDAD, Y DONDE LAS ESTIRPES CONDENADAS A CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD TENGAN POR FIN Y PARA SIEMPRE UNA SEGUNDA OPORTUNIDAD SOBRE LA TIERRA.”
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

Translation:
Fifty Thousand Pesos.

Lost city, Sierra Nevada de Santa Maria

Burgao
Cittarium pica

The loneliness of Latin America
“A new and devastating utopia of life, where no one can decide for others even the way they die, where love is truly true and happiness is possible, and where the lineages condemned to a hundred years of loneliness will finally and forever have a second chance on earth.”
Gabriel García Márquez

Watermark

Portrait of Gabriel García Márquez and electrotype denomination "50"

Printer

Imprenta de Billetes, Bogotá, Colombia

*PLEASE NOTE: SERIAL # WILL VARIES DEPENDING ON AVAILABILITY