Catalog
5 Pesos Overprint
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | A central allegorical female vignette occupies the middle of the note, the figure seated and draped in classical robes, surrounded by intricate guilloche rosettes in blue and brown at left and right. The large denomination numeral '5' appears within each rosette panel, and the bold heading 'CASA DE MONEDA DE MEDELLIN' runs across the upper field. Three manuscript signatures appear along the lower margin, with the imprint of the American Bank Note Company at the bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | Casa de Moneda de Medellin Certificado Sobre-Consignacion de Oro en la Casa de Moneda de Medellin Cinco Pesos Oro Acunado Medellin a Quince de Septiembre de 1919 El Tesorero El Secretario de Hacienda El Administrador de la Casa de Moneda |
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Colombia's Banco de la República was established in July 1923, and the earliest notes it issued were not purpose-designed pieces but overprints on existing stock — in this case, plates already held by the American Bank Note Company that had been prepared for predecessor institutions. The overprint solution got new currency into circulation within weeks of the bank's founding, a practical necessity given the monetary chaos that had prompted the Kemmerer Mission's reforms in the first place.
Pick 352 is among the earliest issues attributable to the new central bank. Survivors with clean overprint strikes and no bleed-through are genuinely uncommon.