Currency of Colombia 5000 Pesos banknote 2016 Jose Asuncion Silva
Banco de la República (Colombia) - Central bank of the Republic of Colombia
Obverse: image of the face of the Bogota poet José Asunción Silva, considered one of the founders of Spanish-American Modernism, and another one of full body of back in which it maintains an umbrella.
Denomination in dark brown-to-light brown OVI; BRC as registration device; Abejorro (bumblebee) as registration device; Puya plant (Paepalanthus columbiensis) in cooper-to-green OVI;
Text: “5 MIL PESOS” in the upper left corner.
Texts: “BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA” and “COLOMBIA.”
The signatures of the Governor of the Central Bank and its Deputy Executive Governor.
Reverse: The Colombian páramos, ecosystems of unparalleled wealth with Andean condor flying above mountainous landscape, Mammal at left. José Asunción Silva’s poem “Melancolía”.
The logo of Banco de la República.
The texts “5 MIL PESOS” and “CINCO MIL PESOS.”
Watermark: On the left side of the banknote poet José Asunción Silva face appears against the light, with a threedimensional effect and the number “5”.
Printer: IMPRENTA DE BILLETES — BANCO DE LA REPUBLICA.
Size: Its measurements are 133 x 66 mm; it is printed on 100% cotton security paper.
Signature Escobar/Buitrago.
Prefix AA. 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2015. Introduction: 09.10.2016.