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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Agrícola |
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| Year | 1870 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio on white paper with red guilloche underprint. Central vignette shows a farmer with a donkey at left and a seated female allegorical figure at right, flanking the denomination CINCO PESOS in large lettering. Bank title EL BANCO AGRICOLA arches across the top, with SPECIMEN overprints in red at center and side panels. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on white paper, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate lathe-work border of interlocking scalloped guilloche patterns. A central oval cartouche bears the inscription EL BANCO AGRICOLA / CHILE in bold serif lettering, flanked on each side by numeral 5 counters within ornate frames. |
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Banco Agrícola was one of several short-lived private agricultural banks chartered in Colombia during the brief free banking period of the 1860s–70s, when the federal Rionegro Constitution of 1863 left currency issuance largely to individual states and private institutions. The result was a proliferation of notes with little coordinated redemption infrastructure — many agricultural bank issues were never fully honored.
The American Bank Note Company's predecessor firm handled this printing, as it did for dozens of Latin American clients competing for credibility through engraving quality rather than reserves. Pick S108 is scarce; surviving examples suggest this series had limited issue life before the institution folded.