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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Barranquilla |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a central text panel within a guilloche border, carrying a declaration of departmental guarantee referencing the national government contract of 12 June 1900. Large numeral '5' vignettes appear at left and right flanking the text block. A manuscript signature of the departmental official runs below the central legend. |
| Reverse lettering | El Cajero del Banco Este billete de cinco pesos se tiene el Departamento, temporalmente inconvertible y circula bajo la responsabilidad del Gobierno Nacional, según contrato de 12 de Junio de 1900. El Jefe Civil y Militar del Departamento |
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Banco de Barranquilla was a departmental bank operating out of Colombia's principal Caribbean port, and its notes circulated primarily within the Atlántico region during a period when Colombia's monetary system was fragmenting under the pressures of the Thousand Days' War, which broke out in October 1899. Private and regional banks were left to manage their own note issues as the national government lost effective fiscal control.
Pick S253 falls within the chartered private bank series that Colombian catalogers have long found difficult to sequence precisely — surviving specimens are scarce enough that confirmed circulation examples are rarely documented in trade.