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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Ministerio del Tesoro, República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1904 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Dark grey-black intaglio print on white cotton paper. A central vignette presents a detailed engraved view of a large cathedral with flanking buildings and an open plaza, set beneath a semicircular arch. The national coat of arms appears in the upper left, with the diagonal legend REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA running across the centre. The denomination CINCO PESOS is inscribed in bold letterpress along the lower centre, with the place and date of issue — Bogotá, Abril de 1904 — below. Two manuscript signatures of El Ministro del Tesoro and El Secretario General de la República appear above the lower panel, with the serial number and amortisation clause at right. |
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| Reverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA CAMILO TORRES CINCO PESOS 5 SECRETARIO DE LA JUNTA NACIONAL DE AMORTIZACIÓN Waterlow & Sons, Londres, Inglaterra |
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Colombia's Ministerio del Tesoro issued paper currency directly rather than through a central bank during this period — the Banco Nacional had been liquidated in 1894 after a damaging history of forced currency and over-emission, leaving the Treasury to fill the gap. The 1904 date places this note in the immediate aftermath of the Thousand Days War, one of the most destructive civil conflicts in Colombian history, which had ended in late 1902 and left the country's finances in severe disorder.
Waterlow & Sons had handled Colombian government printing work across multiple series; their security printing division was among the most technically capable in London at the time. The cotton substrate was a deliberate choice for durability in tropical circulation conditions.