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5.000 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Currency | Peso Oro (1931-1993) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a seated statue of Rafael Núñez on a pedestal, rendered in intaglio in purple tones against a fine guilloche background. A list of Colombian states from the era of the Estados Unidos de Colombia (1863–1886) is inscribed to the left of the statue, with the national arms at lower left and geometric rosette security designs at upper left and right. The printer's imprint appears at lower right. |
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| Protection description | a portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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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.