5 Pesos

The Banco Español de la Isla de Cuba was, by the mid-1890s, issuing currency into an economy increasingly disrupted by the Cuban War of Independence. This note belongs to the final years of Spanish colonial banking on the island — the bank's charter was effectively terminated following the 1898 Spanish-American War, making the 1896–97 series among the last it would ever produce.

ABNC handled the printing throughout the bank's later decades, a relationship common among Latin American and Caribbean issuers of the period who lacked domestic security printing infrastructure.