B994 (P459): 5,000 pesos (US$1.45)
Brown. Front: Spanish text; denomination in dark brown-to-light brown OVI; BRC as registration device; Abejorro (bumblebee) as registration device; Puya plant in cooper-to-green OVI; poet José Asunción Silva. Back: Spanish text; spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) walking on four legs with Andean condor flying above mountainous landscape of Páramos de Colombia Fuentes de Agua with frailejón plants; Abejorro (bumblebee); José Asunción Silva’s poem “Melancolía;” Liberty head bank seal. Fuschia-to-green windowed security thread with demetalized BRC and bumblebees. Watermark: José Asunción Silva and electrotype 5. Printer: IMPRENTA DE BILLETES — BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA. 133 x 66 mm. Paper.
a. 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2015.
Sig. 22: Uribe/Tolosa. Prefix AA, AB.
Intro: 09.11.2016.
Courtesy of Noel Jose Cuenca and Camilo Uribe.