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5 Pesos Overprint
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Casa de Moneda de Medellin Certificado Sobre-Consignacion de Oro en la Casa de Moneda de Medellin Cinco Pesos Oro Acunado Medellin a Quince de Septiembre de 1919 El Tesorero El Secretario de Hacienda El Administrador de la Casa de Moneda |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on cream paper with a border of fine guilloche ornamental work and large numeral '5' panels at left and right. A three-line black overprint reading 'BANCO DE LA REPUBLICA / BILLETE PROVISIONAL' dominates the centre, applied over the existing text of the original Casa de Moneda certificate. The Colombian national arms appear in a small vignette at the bottom centre, and the headings 'REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA' and 'DEPARTAMENTO DE ANTIOQUIA' are printed across the upper portion. |
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Colombia's Banco de la República was established in July 1923, and the earliest notes it issued were not purpose-designed pieces but overprints on existing stock — in this case, plates already held by the American Bank Note Company that had been prepared for predecessor institutions. The overprint solution got new currency into circulation within weeks of the bank's founding, a practical necessity given the monetary chaos that had prompted the Kemmerer Mission's reforms in the first place.
Pick 352 is among the earliest issues attributable to the new central bank. Survivors with clean overprint strikes and no bleed-through are genuinely uncommon.