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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco del Estado / Estado Soberano del Cauca |
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| Year | 1886 |
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| Value | 10 Centavos |
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| 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. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red-brown on plain paper, the reverse displays a symmetrical lathe-work design with large numeral 10 vignettes at left and right, each within ornate guilloche rosettes. A central oval cartouche formed by intricate engine-turned scrollwork contains the inscription EL CAJERO with a handwritten signature across it. Decorative corner ornaments and repeating border patterns complete the design, with the printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE CO. NEW YORK appearing at both top and bottom margins. |
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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.