Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Tesorería General, Caracas |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Currency | Peso (1826-1879) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note on cream paper with an ornate guilloche border. Three vignette panels run across the upper portion: the two outer panels each bear the numeral "10" within a decorative rectangular frame, while the central panel contains the Venezuelan national coat of arms. The main text body, set in letterpress, states the bearer clause and payability terms in Spanish, with the denomination "DIEZ PESOS" printed in bold display type; the note is dated Caracas, 1 October 1849, and bears a circular official seal at lower right alongside three manuscript signatures. |
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| Protection type | Official seal |
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The Tesorería General de Venezuela issued this note during a period when the young republic was still building the institutional machinery of a functioning monetary system. The 1840s saw repeated attempts to establish reliable paper circulation in Caracas, complicated by chronic distrust of government-backed paper among a merchant class that had lived through the monetary chaos of the independence wars.
Printed locally in Caracas rather than contracted to a European security printer, which places it in a small category of mid-19th century Latin American notes produced entirely without foreign technical assistance. The single security feature — an official seal — reflects the limitations of domestic printing capability at the time.