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5000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Central de Chile |
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| Year | 2009-2021 |
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| Size | 134 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 5000 CINCO MIL PESOS BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE (Translation: Five Thousand Pesos Central Bank of Chile) |
| Reverse description | Predominantly pink on polymer substrate, the reverse carries a detailed vignette of La Campana National Park, with Chilean wine palms rendered in the background landscape and a great horned owl (Bubo magellanicus) seated at center. The issuer name runs in bold across the lower margin, with the denomination in large numerals at upper left and lower right, and the park name inscribed below the central vignette. |
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Chile was among the earliest Latin American countries to adopt polymer for its circulating notes, beginning with the 1000 Pesos denomination in 1998 before gradually extending the technology across the series. The 5000 Pesos polymer transition followed the same logic: reduce replacement costs on a high-turnover denomination. Printing was split between the Casa de Moneda de Chile and Note Printing Australia — not an unusual arrangement for countries building local polymer capacity while still relying on the Melbourne facility for production runs.
The transparent window on this note is integrated into the substrate rather than applied as a patch, which is characteristic of the NPA substrate used throughout the Chilean polymer series.