Catalog
5.000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 5.000 Pesos |
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| Reverse lettering | 5000 CINCO MIL PESOS |
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| Protection description | José Asunción Silva's portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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Colombia's central bank has operated its own intaglio printing facility in Bogotá since the 1950s, and by the mid-1990s was producing the full domestic currency series in-house — unusual for a Latin American issuer of that period, most of whom still relied on European security printers. The 1995 5,000 Peso note came out of that facility at a moment of considerable monetary stress: annual inflation in Colombia was running above 20%, and the 5,000 Peso denomination, once substantial, was losing ground fast.
A new family of notes with polymer substrate and redesigned security architecture replaced this cotton paper series within a few years.