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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Sogamoso |
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| Year | 1882 |
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| Currency | Peso (1837-1907) |
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| Obverse description | Black on green underprint. At left, a circular guilloche vignette with the numeral 5 at centre; in the middle, an intaglio vignette of a horseman at full gallop in a landscape setting; at right, a large ornate rosette with numeral 5. The bank title EL BANCO DE SOGAMOSO appears in large bold lettering across the lower centre, with the denomination CINCO PESOS below. Serie A designation and serial number appear at upper centre; date and place of issue, Sogamoso 25 de Octubre de 1882, and authorisation date 15 de Agosto de 1882, appear along the lower portion above three manuscript signature lines. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on plain paper. The reverse is framed by an intricate border of repeating guilloche ornaments and numeral 5 corner pieces. The bank name BANCO DE SOGAMOSO is set in large serif lettering at centre, with the legend EL CAJERO: below, followed by a manuscript cashier signature. The overall layout is symmetrical with a large central panel left blank for the cashier's endorsement. |
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Banco de Sogamoso was one of the short-lived regional banks chartered under Colombia's 1870s free banking legislation, which allowed individual states and private institutions to issue their own currency with minimal federal oversight. The system collapsed under chronic over-issuance and the political upheaval of the 1880s, and most of these provincial banks were absorbed or dissolved following the monetary reforms of 1886 that concentrated currency authority in Bogotá.
Lit. de Paredes was a local lithographic house — not an international security printer — which partly explains why notes from this bank are considered vulnerable to early-generation reproductions. Sogamoso itself is a mid-altitude Boyacá city, and a bank of this size would have served a predominantly agricultural and trade economy with limited note circulation radius.