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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Sogamoso |
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| Year | 1882 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on plain paper. The reverse is framed by an intricate border of repeating guilloche ornaments and numeral 5 corner pieces. The bank name BANCO DE SOGAMOSO is set in large serif lettering at centre, with the legend EL CAJERO: below, followed by a manuscript cashier signature. The overall layout is symmetrical with a large central panel left blank for the cashier's endorsement. |
| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE SOGAMOSO EL CAJERO: |
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Banco de Sogamoso was one of the short-lived regional banks chartered under Colombia's 1870s free banking legislation, which allowed individual states and private institutions to issue their own currency with minimal federal oversight. The system collapsed under chronic over-issuance and the political upheaval of the 1880s, and most of these provincial banks were absorbed or dissolved following the monetary reforms of 1886 that concentrated currency authority in Bogotá.
Lit. de Paredes was a local lithographic house — not an international security printer — which partly explains why notes from this bank are considered vulnerable to early-generation reproductions. Sogamoso itself is a mid-altitude Boyacá city, and a bank of this size would have served a predominantly agricultural and trade economy with limited note circulation radius.