5 Pesos

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.