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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco del Estado, Departamento del Cauca |
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| Year | 1900 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note with guilloche underprint of repeated text reading CINCO PESOS in the side margins. Header reads REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA — DEPARTAMENTO DEL CAUCA, with EL BANCO DEL ESTADO in large bold letterpress type. Three signature lines are present for the Secretario de Hacienda, the Gerente, and the Director nombrado por la Asamblea. |
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| Reverse description | Plain typeset reverse with dense guilloche underprint of repeated text reading BANCO DEL ESTADO, $5, CINCO PESOS across the entire field. A central framed panel bears the cashier signature line. A circular bank seal stamp is impressed at lower right. |
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The Banco del Estado del Cauca was a departmental institution operating under Colombia's era of free banking, and by 1900 the country was deep into the Thousand Days' War — a civil conflict that devastated the national economy and triggered runaway paper money inflation across both government and regional issuers. Notes printed in-house by the department's own press in Popayán, rather than contracted to an established security printer, reflect exactly the kind of fiscal improvisation that characterized provincial finance during the war years.
Four signatures on a single note is unusual and points to layered accountability — or an attempt to project institutional legitimacy under circumstances where neither was easy to guarantee.