Catalog
5 Pesos
| Issuer | República de Colombia |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Unissued remainder on white cotton paper with letterpress and intaglio printing. A central vignette depicts the Bolivarian arms — a cornucopia and fasces between palm fronds on a globe — enclosed within an oval guilloche frame. The denomination numeral '5' appears in small vignette ovals at the upper left and upper right corners, with the words 'CINCO PESOS' printed vertically in ornamental letters along both side borders. The issuer legend 'Republica BOLIVAR. de Colombia.' arches across the upper portion, with manuscript-style promise text below reading 'A Su presentacion la Cantidad de CINCO Pesos.' |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is an uninked impression of the obverse design, presenting a mirror image of the central Bolivarian arms vignette and all surrounding typographical elements in blind or lightly printed form, consistent with an unissued remainder printed on a single sheet. No additional design elements are present on the reverse. |
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Rawdon, Wright & Hatch was one of the premier American security printers of the mid-nineteenth century, later absorbed into the American Bank Note Company in 1858. Any Colombian note attributed to this firm dates to that early window — the partnership dissolved when the merger occurred, meaning P#8 almost certainly predates the consolidation.
Colombia's monetary situation in this period was complicated by near-constant civil conflict and the fragmentation of fiscal authority between the central government and individual states. A federally issued 5 Pesos note from this era would have competed with — or been undercut by — locally issued paper from the Sovereign States under the 1863 Rionegro constitution.