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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Republicano |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Currency | Peso (1863-1985) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note with elaborate guilloche borders and four corner cartouches, each inscribed with founding shareholders' names. A central oval vignette presents a classical female allegorical figure holding a cornucopia and caduceus. Flanking the centre, two intaglio-printed Colombian tricolor flag vignettes appear at left and right, each within ornate frames bearing the numeral '5', while the denomination, bank name, and payable clause are set in letterpress below the vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO REPUBLICANO 5 5 |
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Banco Republicano was a short-lived Colombian private bank operating under the 1880s free-banking legislation that briefly allowed chartered institutions to issue their own currency. By 1899, Colombia was sliding toward the Thousand Days' War — a civil conflict that began that same year and effectively ended the private banking era, with note-issuing privileges eventually consolidated under the Banco de la República in 1923.
Bradbury, Wilkinson produced the plates with their usual technical precision. Whether significant quantities ever reached active circulation before the war disrupted normal commerce is uncertain, which may explain why S812 appears infrequently in trade.