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5.000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Value | 5.000 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a portrait vignette of José Asunción Silva, the celebrated Colombian poet, positioned at center-right in intaglio engraving against a background vignette of a tropical landscape with tall palms. Decorative floral and botanical motifs fill the left and right margins, rendered in multicolor guilloche underprint in shades of green and blue. The bank title BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA appears at the top, with the denomination CINCO MIL PESOS and the numeral 5000 at lower right, alongside the issuing date and place SANTA FE DE BOGOTÁ and COLOMBIA at the bottom. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central intaglio vignette illustrating a nocturnal forest scene inspired by Silva's poem Nocturno, with a solitary female figure walking among a colonnade of slender trees beneath a luminous full moon; to the right stands a stone plinth with a commemorative tablet. Elaborate Art Nouveau-style botanical border decorations in polychrome flank the central scene on both sides. The denomination CINCO MIL PESOS and numeral 5000 appear at the lower center and upper-left corners respectively, with the Banco de la República seal visible at lower left. |
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Banco de la República has operated its own printing facility in Bogotá since the 1950s, one of relatively few central banks in Latin America to maintain full in-house production — giving Colombian notes a degree of quality control and design autonomy unusual for the region. Miguel Urrutia Montoya, whose signature appears here as Gerente General, was an economist of some standing who served the bank through much of the 1990s and into the 2000s, a period of considerable monetary pressure as Colombia worked to bring inflation under control after years of double-digit rates.