Catalog
5.000 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Size | 157 x 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Rafael Núñez at left, with a vignette of a church building to his lower left within a panel bearing his name. The note is printed in shades of purple and mauve on a fine guilloche underprint. Denomination numeral 5000 appears at lower left and lower right, with the issuer name EL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA and the promise clause PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR at upper center, date and place of issue at lower center, and two facsimile signatures with titles GERENTE and SECRETARIO. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR CINCO MIL PESOS ORO RAFAEL NÚÑEZ GERENTE SECRETARIO SANTA FE DE BOGOTÁ, 31 DE ENERO DE 1992 COLOMBIA 5000 |
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Colombia's central bank has operated its own intaglio printing facility in Bogotá since 1959 — one of the few in Latin America capable of producing the full note from substrate to finished product in-house. That self-sufficiency matters here: this note was produced entirely domestically at a moment when the country was under intense U.S. pressure related to drug trafficking, and maintaining sovereign control over currency production carried real institutional weight for the Banco de la República.
The P#436A designation indicates a plate or signature variety within the broader 5,000 Pesos Oro series, which ran through the early 1990s before denomination inflation pushed the Banco toward higher values and eventually the simplified "Pesos" redenomination of 1993.