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5 Pesos
| Issuer | República de Colombia (Junta Nacional de Amortización) |
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| Year | 1904 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black on green underprint. The Colombian national arms appear as a vignette at left, with a central vignette of a church; the issuer's name arches across the top in a curved banner. Face value numerals occupy all four corners, with the denomination rendered in words above a central numeral, while the place and date of issue are inscribed along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | CINCO REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA Billete por valor de CINCO PESOS BOGOTÁ, Abril de 1904 Amortizable conforme á las Leyes (Translation: Republic of Colombia Banknote for value of Five Pesos Amortizable according to the laws Bogota, April 1904) |
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The Junta Nacional de Amortización was not a central bank but a debt-management body, pressed into the role of currency issuer during the chronic fiscal disorder that followed the Thousand Days War (1899–1902). Colombia emerged from that conflict with its paper currency in near-total collapse; the Junta's notes were part of a broader, largely unsuccessful attempt to impose order on a monetary system that had been flooded with depreciating government-backed paper for years.
Waterlow & Sons produced the plate work in London. The series is catalogued under both the standard Pick numbering and the specialist Hernández reference — the latter being essential for distinguishing the several issuing authorities operating concurrently in Colombia during this period.