Catalog
10 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO NACIONAL DE LA REPÚBLICA DE COLOMBIA pagará al portador á la vista DIEZ CENTAVOS EN MONEDA CORRIENTE Bogotá, 30 de Septiembre de 1900. MINISTRO DEL TESORO MIEMBROS DE LA JUNTA DE EMISION (Translation: The National Bank of the Republic of Colombia will pay to bearer at sight Ten Cents in current currency. Bogotá, September 30th., 1900 Treasury Ministry, Members of the issuing joint.) |
| Reverse description | Printed in red, the reverse is without pictorial vignettes; the face value appears in numerals and words on the left, with the denomination in words repeated in four rows at the lower right. The issuer's name is placed in the upper right, a blue series letter occupies the centre, red serial numbers appear at the upper right, the cashier's signature is at the bottom, and a blue official seal is also present. |
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The Banco Nacional de la República de Colombia had a turbulent final decade. The bank lost its note-issuing privilege in 1894 amid severe controversy over its unchecked expansion of fiduciary emissions, yet notes continued circulating — and being issued — well into the Thousand Days War period that began in 1899. Whether this particular emission precedes or falls within that conflict's early phase is worth considering when dating examples closely.
Printed domestically by the Litografía Nacional rather than sent abroad to a European security printer, which was unusual for the period and speaks to both cost pressures and political instability that made foreign contracting impractical.