See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration! or register with email

Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!

5 Pesos 2nd. issue

Issuer Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia
Year 1899
Type Log in to see details
Value Log in to see details
Currency Paper Peso (1872-1916)
Composition Log in to see details
Size Log in to see details
Shape Log in to see details
Printer Log in to see details
Designer(s) Log in to see details
Engraver(s) Log in to see details
In circulation to Log in to see details
Reference(s) Log in to see details
Obverse description Letterpress-printed in black on white paper, the face carries a central vignette of the Colombian national arms flanked by two seated allegorical figures. Four manuscript signatures appear across the face, with the serial number printed in red ink.
Obverse lettering EL BANCO NACIONAL
DE LA
REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA
PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR
Á LA VISTA
CINCO PESOS
EN MONEDA CORRIENTE
BOGOTÁ, 29 DE OCTUBRE DE 1899.
2a EMISION
(Translation: The National Bank of Republic of Colombia
Pay to bearer at sight
Five Pesos
in currency
Bogota, October 29, 1899.
2nd Issue)
Reverse description Printed entirely in green, the reverse consists of dense guilloche lathe-work arranged in decorative panels across the full surface, with numeral "5" counter medallions at each corner. A circular seal in red appears at center, and the printer's imprint "SEGUNDA EDICION. LITOGRAFÍA NACIONAL" is placed along the lower right margin.
Reverse lettering Log in to see details
Signature(s) Log in to see details
Protection type Log in to see details
Protection description Log in to see details
Variants Log in to see details
Comments Log in to see details

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE