Catalog
5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Rio Hacha |
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| Year | 1883 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-brown on a plain background, with an elaborate engine-turned guilloche border composed of Greek key and beaded outer frames surrounding a central ornamental panel of acanthus scrollwork and floral motifs. The numeral '5' appears in large outlined form at both the left and right within shield-shaped guilloche cartouches. The legend 'EL CAJERO' is inscribed at centre-upper, and the printer's imprint 'AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK' appears at the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | EL CAJERO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, NEW YORK |
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Banco de Rio Hacha operated out of the Colombian coastal city of the same name, a port with deep roots in the contraband pearl and dyewood trades — by the 1880s a banking backwater issuing currency in a region where commercial activity was modest at best. The American Bank Note Company's involvement is unsurprising; ABNC held a near-monopoly on Latin American banknote contracts during this period, and Colombian provincial banks routinely turned to New York for engraved work they could not source domestically.
The S-prefix Pick reference places this firmly in the Colombian specialized catalog. Surviving examples are rare — provincial Colombian issues of this era had short active lives and low print runs.