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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1886 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue-green with dense guilloche lathe-work forming the central design field. The bold inscription CINCO PESOS runs across the centre within an elaborate scrollwork and foliate surround, with the numeral 5 in a large rosette at left and the Roman numeral V within a framed panel at right. A red bank seal is struck over the central guilloche area, and small numeral counter-5s appear within oval lathe medallions at upper right. The printer's imprint of Homer Lee Bank Note Co. N.Y. appears at the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 5 CINCO PESOS V (Translation: Five Pesos) |
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The Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia was established by law in 1880 as a state monopoly issuer, explicitly displacing the private banks that had dominated Colombian currency for the prior decade. This note falls within the bank's early emission period, when the institution was still consolidating that monopoly and private banks were actively resisting the transition — some continuing to issue their own notes illegally well into the mid-1880s.
Homer Lee Bank Note Company operated out of New York for only about a decade before being absorbed into the American Bank Note Company consolidation of 1891, making their Colombian work a relatively narrow window of production.