5 Pesos replica

The Banco de Barcelona was one of Spain's earliest joint-stock banks of issue, authorized under the 1856 banking law that briefly allowed provincial banks to print their own currency. Its operations were eventually absorbed following the 1874 decree that granted the Banco de España a monopoly on note issue — a centralizing move that effectively killed every regional issuer at once.

This is a replica, not an original. The Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre has produced authorized facsimiles of historically significant Spanish notes for collectors; the FNMT's involvement lends the reproduction a degree of official sanction, but provenance should be stated clearly at point of sale.