1 Peso

Cundinamarca was one of several Colombian states that began issuing its own paper currency following the 1853 constitution, which effectively decentralized fiscal authority to the sovereign states of the Granadine Confederation. The Estado de Cundinamarca — the state surrounding and including Bogotá itself — was among the earliest to act on that authority. This 1857 peso predates the formal establishment of the Banco de Bogotá by fifteen years and circulated in an economy where metallic coin shortages made even low-denomination paper notes practically necessary.

Local Bogotá printing at this date means modest production values; the notes were not engraved by a European security printer.