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 | Banco del Estado / Estado Soberano del Cauca |
|---|---|
| Year | 1886 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| 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 | Orange-pink guilloche underprint covers the note, with the header inscription ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COLOMBIA above the bold title ESTADO SOBERANO DEL CAUCA and the issuing bank name EL BANCO DEL ESTADO in large script lettering at centre. The denomination DIEZ CENTAVOS appears in an ornate dark panel, with the date Popayán, 2 de Enero de 1886 and Serie A below; to the right, an intaglio vignette presents a classical female bust in profile, helmeted in the antique style, set within a dark lathe-work oval frame. Signature lines for El Gerente, El Inspector, and El Secretario de Hacienda appear at lower centre, with a serial number in the lower right. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COLOMBIA ESTADO SOBERANO DEL CAUCA EL BANCO DEL ESTADO PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR A LA VISTA DIEZ CENTAVOS EN MONEDA CORRIENTE Popayán, 2o de Enero de 1886 SERIE A EL SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA EL GERENTE EL INSPECTOR American Bank Note Co. New York |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| 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 |
The Estado Soberano del Cauca was one of nine sovereign states under Colombia's federalist Rionegro Constitution of 1863 — a constitutional arrangement abolished in 1886, the same year this note was issued. The timing is not coincidental. The centralist Regeneración movement under Rafael Núñez dismantled the federal system that year, and fractional notes like this one were emergency emissions as the old state banking structures collapsed into what would become the unified República de Colombia.
American Bank Note Company produced this for a government that, by the time the notes reached circulation, had technically ceased to exist as a sovereign entity.