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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Popular de Soto |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Currency | Peso (1886-1907) |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette of a male portrait in 18th-century attire, framed by guilloche ornament and the bank title curved along the left border. Denomination numeral '5' appears at upper left and right corners, with a seated allegorical female figure at the lower right. Issued at Bucaramanga, with three signature lines for El Gerente, El Presidente, and El Secretario. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO POPULAR DE SOTO Bucaramanga, de de 18 Pagará al portador á la vista CINCO PESOS en moneda corriente EL PRESIDENTE EL GERENTE EL SECRETARIO CINCO 5 |
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Banco Popular de Soto was one of dozens of small Colombian regional banks issuing private currency during the country's free banking period — a system dismantled almost immediately after this note was printed, when the state moved aggressively to centralize monetary control during and after the Thousand Days War (1899–1902). Many of these provincial issues never saw sustained circulation; the political collapse came too quickly.
ABNC printed for scores of Latin American clients simultaneously, and their Colombian regional work from this period is technically consistent but not especially distinguished. The plates were economical reuses of standard commercial designs.