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1 Peso = 10 Reales
| Issuer | Tesorería Jeneral de los Estados Unidos de Nueva Granada |
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| Composition | Paper |
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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 |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on aged cream paper, bearing a handwritten serial number in the lower left and a single cursive manuscript signature centrally placed, consistent with a countersignature or endorsement typical of mid-19th century Colombian treasury notes. |
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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.