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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca |
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| Year | 1871 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1985) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black intaglio over an orange guilloche underprint. A central vignette depicts two allegorical figures in a classical composition. Large numeral 10 appears in each upper corner, with the legends ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COLOMBIA and ESTADO SOBERANO DE CUNDINAMARCA arranged across the upper portion. The note bears a manuscript date of 12 de Mayo de 1871 from Bogotá, with three manuscript signatures below designating the President and Secretary of the Junta General de Beneficencia and the Síndico de la Casa de Refugio de Bogotá. The left border carries a vertical BONO FLOTANTE inscription, and the note bears a central cancel hole. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse shows the note printed on plain paper with the obverse design visible in mirror image as a full show-through, consistent with a thin single-sided print. The large cancel hole punched through the centre is clearly visible, and faint manuscript signature traces are discernible in reverse. |
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The Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca was one of nine sovereign states operating under Colombia's federalist constitution of 1863 — each empowered to issue its own currency, contract its own debts, and run its own fiscal machinery largely independent of Bogotá's national government. This note is a product of that arrangement. Litografía de Paredes was a local Bogotá shop, not an international security printer, and the production quality reflects that: lithographed rather than intaglio-engraved, with correspondingly less resistance to counterfeiting.
The federalist system that made these emissions possible was abolished in 1886 when the centralist Regeneración movement consolidated all monetary authority under the national government.