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5 Pesos
| Issuer | República de Colombia |
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| Value | 5 Pesos |
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| Obverse lettering | Republica BOLIVAR. de Colombia. A Su presentacion la Cantidad de CINCO Pesos. CINCO PESOS 5 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is an uninked impression of the obverse design, presenting a mirror image of the central Bolivarian arms vignette and all surrounding typographical elements in blind or lightly printed form, consistent with an unissued remainder printed on a single sheet. No additional design elements are present on the reverse. |
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Rawdon, Wright & Hatch was one of the premier American security printers of the mid-nineteenth century, later absorbed into the American Bank Note Company in 1858. Any Colombian note attributed to this firm dates to that early window — the partnership dissolved when the merger occurred, meaning P#8 almost certainly predates the consolidation.
Colombia's monetary situation in this period was complicated by near-constant civil conflict and the fragmentation of fiscal authority between the central government and individual states. A federally issued 5 Pesos note from this era would have competed with — or been undercut by — locally issued paper from the Sovereign States under the 1863 Rionegro constitution.