5 Dollars

Features

Issuer Cuba
Period First Republic (1902-1906, 1909-1959)
Type Standard banknote
Year 1905
Value 5 Dollars
Currency Pre-Republic (1870-1898)
Composition Paper
Size 180 × 80 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized 1905
Number
N#
299042
References P# 68C
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Paper Money. Modern issues 1961-present (25th edition). Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, United States.
And 2 more volumes.

Series: National Bank of Cuba (private)

Obverse

Portrait. José García Montes at left, issuer name in Spanish and in English on top, face value in numbers at center (repreated 3 times), and in letters below.
Color: black, serial #s: red.

Design is the same as on P# 67, with some changes in text (see link below)

Lettering:
Banco Nacional de Cuba (National Bank of Cuba)
EL BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA
PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR Á LA PRESENTACIÓN
EN SU OFICINA DE LA CIUDAD DE LA
HABANA, LA CANTIDAD DE
5 5 5
CINCO DOLLARS
ORO, Ó SU EQUIVALENTE EN MONEDA CORRIENTE DE LOS E. U. DE AMERICA

Translation:
National Bank of Cuba National Bank of Cuba
The National Bank of Cuba
will pay to the bearer, on its presentation
at office on city of
Havanna, the amount of
5 5 5
Five Dollars
Gold, or its equivalent on currency of the United States of America

Reverse

At center fortress: castle of the Three Kings of the Point.
Issuer name in Spanish above image, and in English below, face value in numbers on both sides of image.
Color: green.

Design is the same as on P# 67 (see link below)

Lettering:
BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA
5 5
NATIONAL BANK OF CUBA

Translation:
National Bank of Cuba
5 5
National Bank of Cuba

Printer

American Banknote Corporation (American Bank Note Company), Ottawa, New York, United States (1795-date)

Comments

"Banco Nacional de Cuba - National Bank of Cuba" (complete name was on both languages), was a private bank, created from the reformatting of a branch of the North American Trust Company, and had not relation with the later public bank Banco Nacional de Cuba, created on 1949.

José García Montes was Finance Secretary at the moment of the printing of these notes.

This bank had not issuing privileges, but they ordered to ABNC to print a series of banknotes on 1905, first issued using "Pesos" currency and later, on the same year another series using "Dollars" currency.

As said before, this bank was not allowed to issue notes, so they were not distributed, most of the were destroyed, and remains are scarce, also were printed specimens, that are a bit more common.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1905)  Not issued note

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