Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Centavos
| Issuer | Departamento de Antioquia |
|---|---|
| Year | 1901 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Small-format note with a guilloche-patterned border framing the entire design. The denomination '10 CENTAVOS' is printed in bold letterpress at the top, flanked by numeral '10' on each side. The body carries the text 'Vale DIEZ CENTAVOS. Amortizable con rentas del Dpto. del próximo cuatrinienio.' below which appears the serial number and the place and date of issue 'Medellín, Enero de 1901'. A manuscript signature appears above the printed line 'Por el Srio. de Hacienda, el Subsecretario,' and the series designation 'SERIE VIII' is printed at the lower left. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | No second image provided; reverse details are not confirmed from available catalog sources. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Antioquia issued its own paper currency during the Thousand Days War (1899–1902), a civil conflict that strangled federal finance and forced Colombia's regions to improvise. This 10 Centavos note belongs to that emergency series — locally printed in Medellín at a time when the national government could not reliably supply currency to the interior.
Regional departmental issues from this period are chronically underrepresented in collections, partly because wartime paper of low face value was used hard and discarded.