10 Centavos

The Banco de Cartagena was one of several private regional banks that emerged following Colombia's 1871 banking legislation, which deliberately decentralized credit and note issuance away from Bogotá. By 1882 the bank was operating under increasingly strained conditions — the same decade would see chronic political instability culminate in the Thousand Days' War, and many of the private banks it overlapped with were wiped out entirely during the monetary chaos of the 1880s and 1890s.

Fractional notes at 10 centavos from provincial Colombian issuers of this period are genuinely rare survivors. Most saw hard daily use and were not redeemed in any organized way.