Catalog
10 Centavos
| Issuer | Estado Soberano de Bolívar |
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| Year | 1877 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark intaglio-printed note with a bearded male portrait vignette at the lower left, set within an oval frame. The upper portion bears the bold inscription ESTADO SOBERANO DE BOLIVAR with the denomination DIEZ CENTAVOS in a central cartouche, flanked by ornate guilloche scrollwork and corner medallions. A manuscript promise-to-pay text in Spanish reads 'El Tesoro del Estado pagará al portador a la vista Diez Centavos en efectivo, Cartagena, Marzo de 1877', with signature lines for El Presidente del Estado and El Secretario Jeneral below. |
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| Signature(s) | Rafael Nuñez and Benjamín Noguera |
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The Estado Soberano de Bolívar was one of nine sovereign states within Colombia's federal structure under the 1863 Rionegro Constitution, each empowered to issue its own currency. Rafael Núñez signed this note in his capacity as the state's governor — the same Núñez who would later dismantle the very federal system that made such regional issues possible, replacing it with the centralist 1886 constitution and a single national bank.
The Compañia Colombiana de Billetes de Banco, despite the Colombian name, operated out of Washington D.C. and handled security printing for several of these sovereign-state issues during the 1870s.