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5.000 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Printer | Imprenta de Billetes - Bogotá |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR CINCO MIL PESOS ORO RAFAEL NÚÑEZ BOGOTÁ, 1o. DE ENERO DE 1990 COLOMBIA GERENTE SECRETARIO 5000 |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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By 1990, Colombia's Banco de la República had been printing its own notes domestically for over a decade, having brought production fully in-house at the Bogotá facility in the late 1970s. The 5,000 Pesos Oro denomination was the highest-value note in regular circulation at that point, though rampant inflation through the late 1980s had badly eroded its purchasing power — a 5,000-peso note that bought meaningful goods in 1986 covered considerably less by the time this series was issued.
The security thread on this series is a simple embedded metallic strip, predating the more sophisticated windowed threads the Banco introduced in subsequent issues.