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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco de Antioquia |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Currency | Peso (1871-1907) |
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| Obverse lettering | LIBRANZA Nº SERIE A 3ª Del contrato con el Gobierno. SUCESOR BANCO DE ANTIOQUIA Medellín, 19 de Enero de 1900. El Cajero de este Banco pagará tres dias vista la cantidad de DIEZ CENTAVOS que cargará en cuenta del Gobierno. El Gerente Propietario. Tipografía Central - Medellín - Director, Carlos Fernández E. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-grey on plain paper, with a central guilloche composition bearing the large numeral '10' flanked by ornamental scroll-work on either side. The denomination 'CENTAVOS' is inscribed in letterpress above and below the central numeral, and the figure '10' is repeated in the side panels. A continuous rosette-pattern border frames the entire reverse field. |
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The Banco de Antioquia was one of Colombia's private departmental banks operating under the 1880s free-banking legislation that allowed regional institutions to issue their own currency. By 1900, that system was collapsing under the weight of the Thousand Days' War — a brutal civil conflict that began in October 1899 and devastated the country's monetary infrastructure. Low-denomination fractional notes like this one filled the vacuum left by disappearing coin, particularly in Antioquia, where commerce continued despite the war.
Tipografía Central was a local Medellín press, not a specialist security printer. The limitations of that show.