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| 正面描述 | The obverse is printed in blue-black and orange on white paper. At left, a street scene vignette shows a colonial Andean town with figures and architecture rendered in fine intaglio. At center, a large vignette presents two cherubs with musical instruments framed by ornate guilloche borders, with the bank title EL BANCO DE LA UNION in bold letters above and PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR beneath. The denomination CINCO PESOS appears in large orange letterpress text at upper left, upper right, and lower flanking panels, with serial number fields and signature lines for DIRECTOR and GERENTE at the lower portion. |
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| 背面铭文 | EL BANCO DE LA UNION 5 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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Banco de la Unión was one of several Colombian private banks chartered in the late 1870s under the liberal banking legislation that briefly allowed free banking across the country. The arrangement lasted barely a decade — the state monopolized note issue in 1886 under Rafael Núñez's centralization reforms, and most private bank paper became worthless almost immediately. Notes from this issuer that predate that collapse are genuinely uncommon in any condition.
ABNC produced the plates in New York. Colombian private bank commissions of this period were often shared or reused across issuers, so plate provenance is worth examining carefully when attributing variants.