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1 Peso
| Issuer | Tesorería General de Guerra de los Estados Unidos de Colombia |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | BOGOTÁ ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COLOMBIA UN PESO UNO 1 1 |
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| Reverse lettering | ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COLOMBIA Tesorería Jeneral de Guerra Vale un peso - Gana el medio por ciento de interés mensual desde la fecha. Se admite como dinero en los términos de la lei. El Tesorero Jeneral DECRETO LEJISLATIVO AUTÉNTICO 8 DE JUNIO DE 1871 |
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The Tesorería General de Guerra — the General War Treasury — issued this note during one of the most turbulent stretches in Colombian federal history. The 1863 Rionegro Constitution had just remade the country into the United States of Colombia, a loose confederation of sovereign states, and the central government's financial apparatus was perpetually strained by regional conflict and an almost complete absence of specie reserves.
War treasury notes of this period were fiscal instruments of last resort, issued to pay troops and suppliers when coin simply wasn't available. Survival rates are low — these circulated hard in wartime conditions and were rarely preserved.