Catalog
5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Pamplona |
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| Year | 1884 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO DE PAMPLONA pagará al portador á la vista CINCO PESOS CINCO 5 PESOS Serie B. Nº 4294 Pamplona Mayo 4/2 1884 El Director Gerente El 2° Director El 3° Director |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse is covered with a dense lathe-work guilloche pattern forming the overall background, with the large numeral 5 at centre within a circular guilloche rosette. The bank name BANCO DE PAMPLONA arcs across the upper portion, while the denomination CINCO PESOS appears in rectangular panels at left and right centre. Numeral 5 counters are repeated in each corner, and a Cajero signature line appears at lower right. |
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Banco de Pamplona was one of Colombia's regional private banks authorized under the banking legislation of 1880, which briefly opened the field to provincial institutions before the national government moved to consolidate monetary authority. The bank operated out of Norte de Santander — a department better known for cacao and coffee commerce than for banking infrastructure — and its note issues were correspondingly modest in circulation geography.
Bradbury, Wilkinson's involvement is the technically interesting element here. Their engraved work for South American regional issuers in this period was generally of higher quality than the notes themselves ever demanded, given the limited circulation zones involved.