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1 Peso
| Issuer | Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca |
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| Year | 1869-1870 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on white paper. Central oval vignette of the Colombian coat of arms flanked by large ornate "1" numerals at left and right within guilloche rosettes. Upper panel bears the legend "ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COLOMBIA" over a manuscript date line reading "Bogotá, 19 de Enero de 1870". Body text sets out the floating-debt conversion clause of the Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca. |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE DE DEUDA FLOTANTE SIN INTERÉS Número 3643 ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COLOMBIA Bogotá 19 de Enero de 1870 EL ESTADO SOBERANO DE CUNDINAMARCA UN PESO EL SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA EL ADMINISTRADOR GENERAL Litog. de H. Pareda. Bogotá. |
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The Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca was one of nine sovereign states under Colombia's 1863 Rionegro Constitution, which granted individual states sweeping autonomous powers — including the right to issue their own paper currency. These notes were not federal instruments; they were obligations of the state government itself, backed by whatever fiscal credibility Cundinamarca could muster in a period of chronic national financial fragmentation.
Printing by H. Pareda's Bogotá lithography shop meant production was entirely local, with no recourse to the security printing houses of Europe. Lithographic notes from this period and region are structurally vulnerable — the ink sits on the surface rather than into the paper fiber, making worn examples prone to surface loss.