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5 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1926-1928 |
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| Currency | Peso decimalized (1847-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a classical Liberty head in profile, set within a circular medallion at centre, surrounded by elaborate green guilloche work with large numeral 5 at left and right flanking the central design. The bank title and city inscriptions arc around the upper portion of the note, with the denomination repeated at the base. |
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| Variants | P#373a - 01.01.1926 P#373b - 01.01.1928 |
| Comments |
Colombia's Banco de la República was only four years old when this note entered circulation, established in 1923 under the recommendations of the Kemmerer Mission — the American financial advisory team that restructured monetary systems across several Latin American countries during the 1920s. The bank's early note contracts went almost exclusively to the American Bank Note Company, a natural consequence of U.S. financial influence over the reform process itself.
The Pesos Oro designation was deliberate, anchoring the currency nominally to gold at a fixed rate — a commitment that held until the pressures of the early 1930s depression forced suspension of convertibility in 1931.