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1 Peso
| Issuer | Departamento del Magdalena, Jefatura Civil y Militar, Riohacha |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Value | 1 Peso |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA - DEP. DEL MAGDALENA UN PESO SERIE C Este billete, por valor de UN PESO es admisible en el pago de todas las rentas y contribuciones del Depmto. y se amortizará en los términos del Decreto de la Jefatura Civil y Militar del Depmto. Nº 39, de 25 de Mayo de 1900. Riohacha, Agosto de 1900. EL SECRETARIO DE GOBNO. EL SECRETARIO DE HODA. UN PESO 1 UN PESO 1 UN PESO |
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| Reverse lettering | EL TESORERO GENERAL |
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Riohacha, on Colombia's Guajira coast, was a functionally isolated town in 1900 — cut off from Bogotá by geography and, at that moment, by the Thousand Days War, the ruinous civil conflict that ran from 1899 to 1902. Emergency notes issued under military-civil command structures proliferated across Colombian departments during this period precisely because central banking had effectively collapsed and local commanders needed to pay troops and requisition supplies.
The Jefatura Civil y Militar designation marks this as a wartime administrative instrument, not a conventional departmental issue. Magdalena's northern frontier position made it a contested zone throughout the conflict.