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5 Pesos Plata
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1932 |
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| Printer | American Bank Note Company, New York, United States |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a classical Liberty head in profile, facing right, set within a circular medallion surrounded by elaborate guilloche lacework printed entirely in rose-red. Large numeral '5' counters appear in each corner and along the side panels, with the issuer legend arching above the central portrait within an ornate cartouche. |
| Reverse lettering | Banco de la República Bogotá Colombia Certificado de Plata (Translation: The Bank of the Republic Bogotá Colombia Silver Certificate) |
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Banco de la República was established in 1923 as Colombia's central bank, created largely under pressure from the Kemmerer Mission — the U.S. economic advisory team that restructured monetary systems across several South American nations in that decade. This note belongs to a series that remained in production well into the 1930s, by which point Colombia had suspended gold convertibility following the global crisis of 1931, making the "Plata" denomination designation increasingly nominal.
ABNC's intaglio work on this series is among the finer commercial output of that New York shop during the period. The paper tends to brown at the margins on circulated examples — a known characteristic of this issue, not mishandling.