5 Pesos Oro Acuñado

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.