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1 Peso = 10 Reales
| Issuer | Tesorería Jeneral de los Estados Unidos de Nueva Granada |
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| Value | 1 Peso |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note on cream paper with the issuing authority's name 'TESORERÍA JENERAL DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NUEVA GRANADA' in ornate lettering across the upper portion, flanked by two small steam-locomotive vignettes in the upper corners. The central text states the denomination 'UN PESO' with the equivalence 'ó sean DIEZ REALES', followed by a line of text confirming acceptance at all national revenue offices. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower portion alongside the place name 'Bogota' and a partially handwritten date beginning '186-'. |
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| Obverse lettering | TESORERÍA JENERAL DE LOS Estados Unidos de Nueva Granada Vale por UN PESO ó sean DIEZ REALES Admitido en todas las oficinas de recaudacion i pago de la Nacion Bogota |
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Nueva Granada's Tesorería Jeneral was not a central bank but a treasury office, and these notes functioned as government fiscal instruments rather than conventional banknotes — a distinction that mattered enormously in a country where public confidence in paper was chronically fragile. The dual denomination, 1 Peso expressed as 10 Reales, reflects the transitional monetary arithmetic of mid-nineteenth-century Colombia, when the decimal peso and the older real-based system overlapped in daily commerce.
Printed locally in Bogotá at a time when most Latin American governments contracted European houses for their paper money, which makes the domestic production origin noteworthy for the period.