Colombia 5,000 Pesos, 2015-2022 P-459

5 MIL PESOS PUYA Paepalanthus columbiensis BANCO DE LA REPUBLICA COLOMBIA JOSE ASUNCION SILVA POETA COLOMBIANO (1865-1896) CINCO MIL PESOS

Poet Jose Silva standing in the center in the middle of the honeycomb (inside which there are various geometrical figures and the name of the issuing bank), his back towards the viewer and holding an umbrella behind him. His portrait on the right. Puya plant (Paepalanthus columbiensis) and a bee between the watermark and the standing figure. Issuer and country name on lower left, face value in numbers an letters on top left, and in letters, turned 90º on right. Five in braille to the right of the country name.

5 MIL PESOS MELANCOLÍA "De todo lo velado, tenue, lejana y misteriosa surge vaga melancolía que del ideal al cielo nos conduce. He mirado reflejos de ese cielo en la brillante lumbre con que ahuyenta las sombras, la mirada de sus ojos azules. Leve cadena de oro que una alma a otra alma con sus hilos une oculta simpatía, que en lo profundo de lo ignoto bulle, y que en las realidades de la vida se pierde y se consume cual se pierde una gota de rocío sobre las yerbas que el sepulcro cubren." JOSÉ ASUNCIÓN SILVA PARAMOS DE COLOMBIA FUENTES DE AGUA ABEJORRO Bombus sp. CINCO MIL PESOS

View of the Andes mountains with rivers flowing down, high-elevation plants, a bear, a condor and a bumblebee. To upper right, a poem by Jose A. Silva, and bank seal, face value in numbers and letters on top left, in letters on lower right.