Catalog
5 Pesos Plata
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1932 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos (5 COP) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Antonio Nariño in an oval portrait medallion, dressed in military uniform, set against an intricate guilloche underprint in blue-grey tones. The denomination numeral '5' appears in large ornate panels to either side of the portrait, with the serial number in red at upper left and right. Date 'Bogota, 1o de Enero de 1932' is printed below the central vignette, with two manuscript signature lines for El Gerente and El Secretario. |
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| Obverse lettering | Banco de la República Certificado de Plata por Cinco Pesos Plata Cambiable en el Banco de la República por Igual Valor en Monedas Legales de Plata (Translation: The Bank of the Republic Silver Certificate for Five Silver Pesos Exchangeable at the Bank of the Republic for Equal Value in Legal Tender Silver Coins) |
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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.