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5 Pesos Oro Acuñado
| Issuer | Banco de Bogotá |
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| Value | 5 Pesos Oro Acuñado |
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| Obverse description | Cédula Hipotecaria format with bold header EL BANCO DE BOGOTÁ and PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR. Central vignette shows an eagle on a shield within an oval frame at left; guilloche underprint with large QUATRO POR CIENTO overprint in blue. Denomination CINCO PESOS ORO ACUÑADO in central cartouche, with Serie Y designation and zeroed serial number, indicating a Specimen. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE BOGOTÁ ESTABLECIDO EN 1771 CINCO PESOS EL CAJERO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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The Banco de Bogotá was a private commercial bank, not a government institution, and its note-issuing authority operated under Colombia's free banking period of the late nineteenth century — a era when competing private banks printed their own currency backed by varying levels of metallic reserves. The denomination "Pesos Oro Acuñado" was a legal distinction: it denominated the note in coined gold pesos rather than depreciated paper pesos, a meaningful difference during Colombia's chronic monetary instability.
ABNC printed for dozens of Latin American private banks during this period, and the Banco de Bogotá series reflects that standard commercial contract relationship — competent work, but not among the firm's more elaborately engraved commissions.