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5 Pesos Banco de Pamplona
| Issuer | Banco de Pamplona |
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| Year | 1884 |
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| Reference(s) | Hernández#1098 |
| Obverse description | Black on blue underprint with guilloche ornaments and numeral "5" medallions at left and right. Oval vignette at upper center bears a classical female portrait in intaglio. Series and serial number flank the vignette above, with the bank's promise-to-pay text in script below the issuer name. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 BANCO DE PAMPLONA CINCO PESOS El Cajero (Translation: Bank of Pamplona Five Pesos The Cashier.) |
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The Banco de Pamplona was one of Colombia's many regional private banks authorized under the 1865 banking legislation, operating out of Norte de Santander before the national consolidation of banking authority eventually rendered these institutions obsolete. Bradbury Wilkinson produced notes for a remarkable number of Latin American regional banks during this period, and the Pamplona commission was a minor one — the bank never achieved the scale of contemporaries like the Banco de Bogotá.
The Hernández reference places this among Colombia's rarer provincial issues. Most surviving examples from small-circulation regional Colombian banks of the 1880s are held in institutional collections.