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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Tesorería General, Caracas |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Reference(s) | P#10 |
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| Obverse lettering | BILLETE DE TESORERIA. (DECRETO DE 1.º DE OCTUBRE DE 1849.) Série F. Núm. Vale por DIEZ PESOS al portador, pagaderos con la cuarta parte de derechos ordinarios de importacion, mitad de derechos de sal y deudas al Tesoro por rezagos hasta 30 de Junio de 1849. Caracas Octubre 1.º de 1849, 20 y 39. El Secretario de Hacienda, El Presidente del Tribunal de Cuentas, El Tesorero general. |
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| Reverse lettering | Recibido y anotado bajo el N.º 212 del Libro especiero Pedro Manuel Hirad. Es en poner al Senado de Venezuela |
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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.