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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Pamplona |
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| Year | 1883 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black intaglio on cream paper with a pink guilloche underprint. At left, a classical allegorical vignette shows a seated female figure with a child at her side, rendered in fine line engraving. The central field bears the bold bank title 'EL BANCO DE PAMPLONA' in large display lettering, below which a panel reads 'CINCO PESOS' in ornate letterpress. The upper right corner carries a numeral '5' within an intricate lathe-work medallion, and the border is formed by a repeated guilloche band with the denomination numeral interspersed throughout. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE PAMPLONA Serie B Nº 00.646 pagará al portador á la vista CINCO PESOS Pamplona Enero 9 de 1883 El Director El Director Gerente El Director 2º Lit. de Papel. Bogotá |
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Banco de Pamplona was one of the smaller regional banks operating under Colombia's free banking regime established by the 1871 banking law, which permitted any legally constituted commercial bank to issue its own currency. The system produced dozens of competing regional emissions throughout the 1870s and 1880s, most of them backed by dubious or unverifiable specie reserves. Pamplona, a provincial capital in Norte de Santander, was commercially isolated enough that its notes rarely traveled far beyond local trade circuits.
The lithographer "Lit. de Papel" in Bogotá was a modest domestic operation — not one of the established European security printers typically sought for currency work of this period. That choice reflects either budget constraints or the difficulty of commissioning abroad during this phase of Colombian regional banking.