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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Bogotá |
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| Year | 1880 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper, with the bank title 'EL BANCO DE BOGOTÁ' in bold letterpress across the lower centre. To the left, a vignette of a classical standing female allegorical figure on a rocky shoreline with sailing vessels in the background; at centre, a large numeral '5' within a circular guilloche medallion; to the right, an oval portrait vignette of a 19th-century uniformed military figure. The promise-to-pay legend 'Pagará al portador á la vista Cinco Pesos' appears beneath the central medallion, with the printer's imprint of the Colombian Bank Note Company, Washington D.C., at the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE BOGOTÁ Pagará al portador á la vista Cinco Pesos BOGOTÁ de 18 SERIE DIRECTOR GERENTE DIRECTOR SEGUNDO DIRECTOR TERCERO Compañia Columbiana de Billetes de Banco WASHINGTON D.C. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA |
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The Colombian Bank Note Company was a short-lived Washington operation that printed for several South American issuers during the 1870s and 1880s, competing directly with the better-known American Bank Note Company. Banco de Bogotá, chartered in 1870 as Colombia's first private commercial bank, relied on foreign printers throughout this period — domestic security printing infrastructure simply didn't exist in any meaningful form.
The 1880 issue predates the catastrophic Thousand Days War by two decades, placing it in a relatively stable window for Colombian private banking, before the wave of forced liquidations and currency chaos that followed.