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1 Peso / 10 Reales Nueva Granada
| Issuer | Tesorería General de los Estados Unidos de Nueva Granada |
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| Year | 1861-1862 |
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| Value | 1 Peso (1 COP) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on brown paper. Upper-left vignette shows a steamship underway; a steam locomotive vignette occupies the upper right. The body of the note carries the treasury text in Spanish, with the denomination expressed both in pesos and reales, and bears a manuscript issue date at lower center. |
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| Protection description | Circular red ink official seal of the Tesorería General, applied by hand on the reverse at the time of issue |
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Nueva Granada's short-lived federal experiment produced this note at a peculiar administrative moment — the country was in the process of reorganizing itself into the Confederación Granadina and then the Estados Unidos de Colombia, meaning the issuing authority named on this note effectively ceased to exist within months of printing. The dual denomination, one peso rendered also as ten reales, reflects the coexistence of the old Spanish colonial reales system with the incoming decimalized peso, a transition that was legally mandated but practically messy in the early 1860s.
Ayala i Medrano was one of the very few lithographic operations capable of producing fiduciary documents in Bogotá at the time. The official seal was the primary — essentially the only — security feature, which made counterfeiting a recognized risk from the outset.