5.000 Pesos

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.