5.000 Pesos

Issuer	Banco de la República
Year	1997
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Shape	Rectangular
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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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Protection description	José Asunción Silva's portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note.
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