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5000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1994-1995 |
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| Size | 140 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | At left, an intaglio portrait vignette of Rafael Núñez is accompanied by a small vignette of the Ermita del Cabrero church below. The serial number is printed in bold red numerals at lower left beneath the portrait and repeated in thin black numerals over the watermark zone at right. The issuing authority, denomination, and date of issue are rendered in letterpress across the central and right-hand fields. |
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| Reverse description | A central vignette presents the statue of Miguel Antonio Caro, with his facsimile signature inscribed below. A vertical panel at left enumerates the nine constituent states of the United States of Colombia (1863–1886), framed by the corresponding dates and the denomination inscription in guilloche-bordered lettering. |
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Colombia brought its banknote printing fully in-house during the early 1990s, and this note was among the first high-denomination issues to come entirely from the Banco de la República's own Imprenta de Billetes facility in Santa Fe de Bogotá — the city's transitional name, used only between 1991 and 2000 following a constitutional provision that briefly restored the capital's colonial designation.
The watermark-only security specification reflects a period before the Imprenta had fully upgraded to the layered security technologies introduced on later Colombian series. Within a few years, this denomination would be retired as inflation pushed everyday transactions into the tens of thousands.