Catalog
5 Pesos Oro Acuñado
| Issuer | Banco de Bogotá |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | CÉDULA HIPOTECARIA EL BANCO DE BOGOTÁ PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR CINCO PESOS ORO ACUÑADO SERIE Y BOGOTÁ ESTACÉDULA ES AMORTIZABLE POR SORTEOS ANUALES EN EL CURSO DE DIEZ AÑOS SE PAGA EN ORO ACUÑADO, INTERÉS CUATRO POR CIENTO ANUAL, PAGADERO EL 30 DE JUNIO DE CADA AÑO EL DIRECTOR GERENTE EL SECRETARIO AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIMEN |
| Reverse description | Printed in deep blue on a dense guilloche ground, with large numeral 5 medallions at left and right. Central vignette shows a public monument with a standing statue on a tall pedestal, set within a park scene. BANCO DE BOGOTÁ and ESTABLECIDO EN 1771 appear at top; CINCO PESOS in a straight banner at foot. |
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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.