# A Pretty Peso - Currency Notes -- Finance & Development, June 2017

> Finance & Development's June 2017 currency notes column profiles Colombia's new 50,000 peso banknote, which features Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez. The piece describes the banknote series launched by the central bank in 2016 and highlights Colombia's economic rise and exports.

- Date: 2017-05-31 · published 2017-05-31T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: macro · region Colombia · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/71280-a-pretty-peso-currency-notes-finance-and-development-june-2017
- Commodities: [Colombian Peso (COP per USD)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/USDCOP.md)

## Why it matters

This is a cultural feature with no new supply, demand, or policy driver for feed commodities, so it has no meaningful price implication.

## Sources

- imf.org: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2017/06/currency.htm

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