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5 Pesos overprint
| Issuer | Banco de la República (Colombia) |
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| Year | 1931 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, New York, United States |
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| Obverse description | Oval portrait vignette of General José María Córdoba in military uniform at left centre, flanked by large numeral 5 guilloche panels on either side, with an intaglio vignette of a condor perched on a rocky outcrop at right. The serial number and series letter appear at upper left and lower right, with three facsimile signatures of the Junta de Conversión members printed along the lower margin. The design is rendered in green and black intaglio on a pink-tinted underprint. |
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| Reverse lettering | Certificado de Plata Cambiable a su Presentacion en el Banco de la Republica por Igual Valor en Monedas Legales de Plata (Translation: Silver Certificate Exchangeable on Presentation at the Bank of the Republic for Equal Value in Legal Tender Silver Coins) |
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Colombia's Banco de la República issued this note during a period of severe external pressure: the country had suspended gold convertibility in 1931 as the Great Depression drained reserves, and the overprint program was a direct administrative response to that dislocation. Rather than commission entirely new plates, the bank authorized ABNC to apply overprints to existing stock — a faster and cheaper route to putting reconfigured currency into circulation during a crisis year.
The ABNC connection here is unambiguous: New York was both the design source and the press.