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5 Pesos

Emittent Banco Nacional de los Estados Unidos de Colombia
Jahr 1881
Typ Standard circulation banknote
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung Black intaglio print on green guilloche underprint. At left, a seated allegorical female figure; at center, a vignette of a man in military uniform; the national Coat of Arms appears at right. The issuing bank name, denomination, and place and date of issue are set in letterpress across the face, with the printer's imprint of the American Bank Note Co., New York, at the lower margin.
Vorderseitenlegende EL BANCO NACIONAL DE LOS ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE COLOMBIA
PAGARÁ AL
portador á la vista
CINCO PESOS
en Moneda Corriente.
BOGOTÁ, 1º DE MARZO DE 1881.
American Bank Note Co. New York
(Translation: The National Bank of The United States of Colombia
Pay to Bearer at sight
Five Pesos
in currency.
Bogota, March 1st., 1881.)
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Anmerkungen

The Banco Nacional de los Estados Unidos de Colombia was established in 1880 as the country's first government bank, replacing the chaotic patchwork of private regional banks that had dominated Colombian finance since independence. This 1881 note belongs to the institution's earliest emission, produced just months after the bank opened its doors in Bogotá.

ABNC's involvement was typical for Latin American sovereign issuers of the period seeking to project fiscal credibility through high-quality intaglio work from a recognized North American firm. The Colombian federal structure — the "Estados Unidos" formulation — would itself collapse within a decade, replaced by the centralized República de Colombia under the 1886 constitution, making notes bearing this issuer name intrinsically short-lived in circulation.