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5 Pesos Oro
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1940-1950 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos (5 COP) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-toned note with a portrait vignette of General José María Córdoba at the left, rendered in intaglio. The central field carries the denomination text between large numeral 5 figures above and below, with the numeral 5 repeated in each corner — the lower-left corner numeral rotated 45 degrees. Serial numbers are printed in red. |
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| Reverse description | Brown-toned reverse centered on a circular vignette of Lady Justice (Liberty) facing right, enclosed within a guilloche border with surrounding legend. Two large numeral 5 figures flank the central vignette, with the numeral 5 repeated in each corner, all rotated 45 degrees alternately left and right from the vertical axis. |
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The Banco de la República's relationship with the American Bank Note Company ran deep through the mid-twentieth century — Colombia relied on ABNC for virtually its entire quality note production during this period, a dependency that occasionally created delivery complications during wartime shipping across the Atlantic approaches. The P#386 series spans a decade-long window, which means dates within the range carry meaningfully different circulation histories: earlier dates from the 1940s entered a wartime economy with tight import controls, while later dates circulated through the coffee boom years that reshaped Colombian monetary policy in the early 1950s.
Notes from this series are frequently found with significant handling wear, consistent with heavy retail use at the five-peso denomination level.