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5 Pesos Oro Legal
| Issuer | Banco de Caldas |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Peso (1819-1837) |
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| Obverse description | Black and pink intaglio print on white paper. Central guilloche vignette contains the denomination CINCO PESOS ORO LEGAL in ornate lettering, flanked by numeral 5 corner medallions. At left, an oval portrait vignette of a man in early 19th-century attire. Bank title EL BANCO DE CALDAS arches across the upper portion in bold letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Uniformly printed in red-orange on white paper. Large ornate guilloche framework frames a central text panel headed CONDICIONES, listing three numbered conditions of the mortgage instrument. The bank name BANCO DE CALDAS is split vertically across the composition. Two large numeral 5 vignettes flank the centre, and fine lathe-work borders frame the entire design. |
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Banco de Caldas was a departmental bank operating out of Manizales, one of several regional Colombian institutions that issued their own currency under the framework established after the abolition of the Banco Nacional in 1894. The American Bank Note Company produced paper for dozens of Latin American clients simultaneously, and the Caldas plates reflect that efficiency — competent work, unremarkable within ABNC's Colombian output.
The "Pesos Oro Legal" denomination was a deliberate legal distinction, pegging the note's value to gold rather than the depreciating paper peso that had plagued Colombia through the Thousand Days War and its aftermath. By 1919, the worst of the monetary chaos had settled, but the explicit "Oro Legal" remained politically necessary reassurance.