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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Republicano |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S812 |
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| Obverse lettering | CINCO PESOS Núm. 30000 Serie 2ª Medellín, 18 EL BANCO REPUBLICANO pagará al portador y á la vista la cantidad de CINCO PESOS en monedas El Gerente El Cajero FUNDADO POR M.A. SANTA MARÍA & LALINDE FUNDADO POR LISANDRO M. URIBE FUNDADO POR MARIANO URIBE É HIJOS FUNDADO POR EDUARDO Y JULIAN VASQUEZ J. CINCO B.W. & Cº LONDON |
| Reverse description | Printed in a single salmon-pink tone, the reverse is composed entirely of intricate guilloche lacework arranged in concentric geometric bands. Large numeral '5' intaglio panels occupy the left and right margins, while the bank name 'BANCO REPUBLICANO' is set in a central rectangular panel framed by fine lathe-work. A perforated cancellation punch is visible at centre, consistent with a Specimen or cancelled example. |
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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.