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5000 Pesos Old bank seal
| Issuer | Banco de la República |
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| Year | 1995-1999 |
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| Currency | Peso decimalized (1847-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of poet José Asunción Silva at right center, set against a landscape background with tall palm trees and tropical vegetation; a winged termite (bachaco) vignette appears at lower left, accompanied by guilloche underprint patterns in multicolor. The denomination '5000' appears at upper left and lower right, with two signature lines and the date 'SANTA FE DE BOGOTA' printed across the lower center. |
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| Protection description | José Asunción Silva portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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The "old bank seal" designation distinguishes this series from the updated P#450 issues that followed Colombia's 1999 institutional rebranding, when Banco de la República adopted a modernized seal. Both types circulated concurrently for a period, creating genuine confusion at point of transaction. The 5,000 Peso denomination was introduced in 1990 and printed in relatively modest quantities across its lifespan — 12,175,000 for this specific run is not a large figure for a mid-denomination note in active daily use.
Dual-printing between De La Rue in London and the Bogotá imprint facility was standard for the series, with intaglio work handled offshore and finishing completed domestically.